Fig. 3. Results of the non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS, Bray – Curtis with similarity index), for the females (left) and males (right) conducted separately. The following variables were considered: subcaudals, crown scales, apicals, perioculars, parietals and loreals (only on the right side because V. walser show a much higher degree of asymmetry on loreal scales count, compared to V. berus). The analysis was carried out on V. walser and three groups of V. berus having the same number of samples, in order to evaluate intraspecific variability. V. walser are in red. The graphs show V. walser to be well differentiated in respect to the three groups of V. berus, which are mostly overlapping
