Delineation in fuzzy boundaries: Canonical ordination analysis discriminates between cryptic species by linking taxonomy to genetics, morphology, climate, and space

• Ioan Sîrbu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ioan.n.sirbu@ulbsibiu.ro (IS), ana.benedek@ulbsibiu.ro (AMB)

  Affiliations Biology and Ecology Research Center, Faculty of Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania, Doctoral School of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9020-1129

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• Ana Maria Benedek ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ioan.n.sirbu@ulbsibiu.ro (IS), ana.benedek@ulbsibiu.ro (AMB)

  Affiliation Biology and Ecology Research Center, Faculty of Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6479-918X

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• Sebastian Hofman,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Aleksandra Jaszczyńska,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Malacology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Department of Invertebrate Evolution, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Andrzej Falniowski

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Malacology, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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