Fig. 5

Auximetric plot comparing the von Bertalanffy growth parameters among fishes

Species other than Triplophysa were extracted from FishBase (July 2022), and the von Bertalanffy growth parameters of Triplophysa other than Triplophysa rosa were quoted from the literature [42,43,44,45, 47]. Every parameter was transformed by a log10 factor. Triplophysa fish are shown by colored circles, whereas other species are represented by gray circles. On the link between k and L_∞, both linear models (dashed line) and phylogenetic generalized linear models (solid line) were used. The gray lines show relationships among other species, while the red lines show relationships among Triplophysa species. The green lines connect the Φ’ values, the direct indication of growth performance