About the Authors

Grace Malato

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Virginia R. Shervette

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

Affiliation Department of Biology/Geology, University of South Carolina, Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Ronald Navarrete Amaya

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

Affiliation Urbanización Paraíso del Río 1, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Jonathan Valdiviezo Rivera

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Museo de Ciencias Naturales del Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador

Fredy Nugra Salazar

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratorio de Zoología de Vertebrados de la Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador

Paola Calle Delgado

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

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Kirby C. Karpan

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Windsor E. Aguirre

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

waguirre@depaul.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.