About the Authors

Camilo Mora

moracamilo@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Derek P. Tittensor

Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sina Adl

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Alastair G. B. Simpson

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Boris Worm

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: CM DPT BW. Analyzed the data: CM DPT. Wrote the paper: CM DPT SA AGBS BW. Reviewed higher taxonomy: CM SA AGBS.