Box-and-whisker diagrams of basic galaxy properties through the EL classification (see Sect. 5). The colour diagrams represent the properties of the non-active galaxies as follows: black − star-forming; dark blue − quiescent-nuclear-ring; brown − centrally quiescent; green − mixed; orange − nearly retired; and red − fully retired. The active galaxies are over-plotted with empty symbols on the diagrams for a given quenching stage (cyan star for sAGN and magenta square for wAGN). The boxes represent the data between the lower and the upper quartiles of the distribution with median values (Tukey 1977), given by the white lines and the numbers. The extent of the data outside the quartiles (whiskers) is indicated by the vertical black lines. The label ‘N’ in each panel gives the total number of the galaxies participating in the statistics. These diagrams represent distributions of various galactic properties in the different emission-line classes: bulge-over-disc flux ratio (B/D, panel A); total luminosity in r-band (, panel B); effective radius (R_e, panel C); stellar mass surface density (μ_*, panel D); stellar mass (M_*, panel E); stellar age (τ, panel F); stellar metallicity (Z, panel G); star formation rate (SFR, panel H); specific angular momentum (λ_Re, panel I); peak circular velocity (V_c, max, panel J); total dynamical mass (, panel K); and mass discrepancy factor (f_d, panel L). The SF−sAGN galaxies show the most discrepant behaviour with respect to their non-active counterparts. The median values of the galaxy properties from the box-and-whisker diagrams are given in Table B.2. See text in Sects. 2 and 5 for further details.