About the Authors

Jairo Arroyave

jarroyave@amnh.org

Affiliations Department of Ichthyology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Biology, the Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America

John S. S. Denton

Affiliations Department of Ichthyology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Melanie L. J. Stiassny

Affiliation Department of Ichthyology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JA MLJS. Performed the experiments: JA JSSD. Analyzed the data: JA JSSD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MLJS. Wrote the manuscript: JA MLJS. Conducted morphological study and taxonomic determination: MLJS.