About the Authors

Cindy Gonzalez

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

ct.gonzalez@uniandes.edu.co

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular de Vertebrados Acuáticos—LEMVA, Bogota, Colombia

Austin J. Gallagher

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Beneath the Waves Inc, Herndon, Virginia, United States of America, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama City, Republic of Panama, Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Susana Caballero

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

Affiliation Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular de Vertebrados Acuáticos—LEMVA, Bogota, Colombia

Competing Interests

This manuscript is the result of collaborative work among scientists from la Universidad de los Andes in Bogota - Colombia, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute – Panama, and the non-profit organization Beneath the Waves - USA. We want to clarify that Beneath the Waves is not a commercial entity, so we state that we don’t have any patents, products in development, employment, consultancy, marketed products, etc. In this sense, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.