About the Authors

Gajaba Ellepola

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

Affiliations College of Forestry, Guangxi Key Lab for Forest Ecology and Conservation, Guangxi University, Nanning, PR China, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Jayampathi Herath

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

Affiliation College of Forestry, Guangxi Key Lab for Forest Ecology and Conservation, Guangxi University, Nanning, PR China

Kelum Manamendra-Arachchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Nayana Wijayathilaka

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

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

Gayani Senevirathne

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

Affiliation Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Rohan Pethiyagoda

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ichthyology Section, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Madhava Meegaskumbura

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

madhava_m@mac.com

Affiliation College of Forestry, Guangxi Key Lab for Forest Ecology and Conservation, Guangxi University, Nanning, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.