Sentence examples for svl from inspiring English sources
abbreviation
Snout to vent length: A measurement of size taken from the tip of an animal's nose to the opening of the cloaca at the tail base.
Therefore additional SVL routines were developed to extract the required information from the binding sites.
Snout-vent length (SVL) and mass were therefore measured every 3 weeks.
Log transformations were necessary to normalize SVL.
Body length was obtained by subtracting head length from SVL.
Frogs were weighed (nearest 0.1 g), snout vent length (SVL) measured (nearest mm), and males assigned to one of two size categories, large (SVL >52 mm) or small (SVL <50 mm).
All adult individuals (>165 mm SVL [2]) were included as candidate parents.
In 12/17 patients SVL was lower than PVL.
For SSD we report the mean SVL of females (left) and the mean SVL of males (right).
Prior to analyses SVL values were ln-transformed.
We classified geckos as adult males if they were > 40 mm snout-vent length (SVL) with overt hemipenial bulges; adult females if they were > 40 mm SVL and without such bulges; and juveniles if they were < 40 mm SVL.
By this equation, the average SVL of frogs in a site adjacent to the road is 19 mm, whereas the average SVL at 150 km is 22 mm.
