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Austruca occidentalis Handedness

Summary

Expected handedness for Austruca occidentalis is 50% right-handed and 50% left-handed

Observed handedness (based on raw totals across all data sets) is 56.41% right-handed, 43.59% left-handed

The following figure displays the left and right counts for each individual data set.

handedness data for Austruca occidentalis

Data

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ReferenceRight CountLeft CountRight %Left %Notes
Yamaguchi (1994)44340.5640.436These are the African individuals he had under the species Austruca annulipes