Mass function of the S/N ≥ 10 (solid lines) and S/N ≥ 20 (dot-dashed lines) galaxy samples, including aperture corrections. Galaxies are divided into young (blue) and old (red), following the division described in Sect. 4.2(left panel) and divided into star-forming (blue) and passive (red), following the Gallazzi et al. (2021) separation, as per Eq. (8) (right panel ). The solid and dot-dashed black lines identify the transition masses obtained from the mass-functions, for the separations based on the age and SFR, respectively. The shaded areas identify the mass ranges where our sample is not representative, namely ≲M_⋆ ∼ 10^9.5 M_⊙ for passive/old galaxies (red shading), ≲M_⋆ ∼ 10⁹ M_⊙ for star-forming and young galaxies (grey shading). Notably, the statistical weights ensure that we recover consistent mass functions irrespective of the S/N cut.