Morphometrics in Zoology: Basic of Morphometrics

Abstract

Morphometrics is the empirical fusion of mathematics and statistics study involving the metrical and statistical properties of shape and interested objects’ shape changing. In biological science studies, morphometric approaches are used to characterize biological relevant forms and patterns of organisms in ways that allow quantitative description and analysis, and interpretation of their morphology and morphological variation. Morphometrics has broad and deep contexts, thus the recent article aims to present the basic principle of morphometric analysis and ideas of morphometric analysis applications in zoological science.