About the Authors

Orangel Aguilera

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia, Programa de Pós-graduação em Biología Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Campus do Valonguinho, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

John Lundberg

Affiliation Department of Ichthyology, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jose Birindelli

Affiliation Departamento de Biologia Animal e Vegetal, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

Mark Sabaj Pérez

Affiliation Department of Ichthyology, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Carlos Jaramillo

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá, Republic of Panama

Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

m.sanchez@pim.uzh.ch

Affiliation Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: OA JL. Analyzed the data: OA JL JB MSP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OA CJ MSV. Wrote the manuscript: OA JL MSV. revised and edited the manuscript OA JL JB MSP CJ MSV.