About the Authors

Kin Onn Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kin Onn Chan, Robin Kurian Abraham

chankinonn@gmail.com

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

L. Lee Grismer

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, California, United States of America

Anil Zachariah

Affiliation Beagle, Chandakunnu, Wayanad, Kerala, India

Rafe M. Brown

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Robin Kurian Abraham

Contributed equally to this work with: Kin Onn Chan, Robin Kurian Abraham

Affiliation Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KOC RKA. Performed the experiments: KOC. Analyzed the data: KOC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KOC. Wrote the paper: KOC RKA LLG RMB. Collected specimens and provided morphological data: AZ.