About the Authors

Salvador Carranza

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

salvador.carranza@ibe.upf-csic.es

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Meritxell Xipell

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Pedro Tarroso

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain, CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, InBio Laboratório Associado, Vairão, Portugal

Andrew Gardner

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia

Edwin Nicholas Arnold

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Michael D. Robinson

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod Muscat, Oman

Marc Simó-Riudalbas

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Raquel Vasconcelos

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain, CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, InBio Laboratório Associado, Vairão, Portugal

Philip de Pous

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Fèlix Amat

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Àrea d’Herpetologia, Museu de Granollers–Ciències Naturals, Palaudàries, Granollers, Spain

Jiří Šmíd

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Zoology, National Museum, Cirkusová, Prague, Czech Republic

Roberto Sindaco

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola (TO), Italy

Margarita Metallinou

† Deceased.

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Johannes Els

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife, Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Sharjah, UAE

Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Luis Machado

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain, CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, InBio Laboratório Associado, Vairão, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

David Donaire

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Asociación Herpetológica Fretum Gaditanum, Mar Egeo, Jerez de la Fra, Spain

Gabriel Martínez

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Granada, Spain

Joan Garcia-Porta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain

Tomáš Mazuch

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Dříteč, Czech Republic

Thomas Wilms

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Allwetterzoo Münster, Münster, Germany

Jürgen Gebhart

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Wiedergeltingen, Germany

Javier Aznar

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Madrid, Spain

Javier Gallego

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Almeria, Spain

Bernd-Michael Zwanzig

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Storkow, Germany

Daniel Fernández-Guiberteau

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Escola de Natura de Parets, C/ Galende, Parets del Vallès, Spain

Theodore Papenfuss

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Saleh Al Saadi

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Ali Alghafri

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Sultan Khalifa

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Hamed Al Farqani

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Salim Bait Bilal

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Iman Sulaiman Alazri

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Aziza Saud Al Adhoobi

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Zeyana Salim Al Omairi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Mohammed Al Shariani

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Ali Al Kiyumi

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Thuraya Al Sariri

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Ahmed Said Al Shukaili

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Suleiman Nasser Al Akhzami

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, Muscat, Oman

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.