About the Authors

Gilson A. Rivas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Museo de Biología, La Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Estado Zulia, Venezuela

Oscar M. Lasso-Alcalá

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Museo de Historia Natural La Salle (MHNLS), Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales (FLASA), Caracas, Venezuela

Douglas Rodríguez-Olarte

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Decanato de Agronomía, Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado, UCLA, Barquisimeto, Estado Lara, Venezuela

Mayke De Freitas

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, Waterbeach, Cambridge, United Kingdom

John C. Murphy

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Science and Education, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, United States of America

Cristian Pizzigalli

Roles Data curation

Affiliation CIBIO/InBIO (Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos), Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal

John C. Weber

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, United States of America

Laurent de Verteuil

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Researcher, London, ON, Canada

Michael J. Jowers

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michaeljowers@hotmail.com

Affiliation CIBIO/InBIO (Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos), Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.