About the Authors

Rahul Mehrotra

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Reef Biology Research Group, Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, New Heaven Reef Conservation Program, Koh Tao, Suratthani, Thailand

Coline Monchanin

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New Heaven Reef Conservation Program, Koh Tao, Suratthani, Thailand

Chad M. Scott

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New Heaven Reef Conservation Program, Koh Tao, Suratthani, Thailand

Niphon Phongsuwan

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Bangkok, Thailand

Manuel Caballer Gutierrez

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Directions des Collections, Paris, France, American University of Paris, Department of Computer Science Math and Environmental Science, Paris, France

Suchana Chavanich

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

suchana.c@chula.ac.th

Affiliations Reef Biology Research Group, Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, Center for Marine Biotechnology, Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Bert W. Hoeksema

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Taxonomy and Systematics Group, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.