Contributors
Frank Portillo: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Edward L. Stanley:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5257-037X
Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – review & editing
William R. Branch: Role: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Werner Conradie:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0805-9683
Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Mark-Oliver Rödel: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Johannes Penner: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Michael F. Barej: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Chifundera Kusamba: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Wandege M. Muninga: Role: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review
& editing
Mwenebatu M. Aristote: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review
& editing
Aaron M. Bauer: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Jean-François Trape: Role: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Zoltán T. Nagy: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Piero Carlino:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0380-981X
Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Olivier S. G. Pauwels: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Michele Menegon: Role: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review
& editing
Ivan Ineich: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Marius Burger: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Ange-Ghislain Zassi-Boulou: Role: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Resources
Tomáš Mazuch: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Kate Jackson: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Daniel F. Hughes: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review & editing
Mathias Behangana: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: Writing – review
& editing
Eli Greenbaum:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-1316
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: Writing
– original draft
Ulrich Joger: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
17
April
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 4
Electronic Location Identifier: e0214889
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas,
United States of America
[2
]
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United
States of America
[3
]
Port Elizabeth Museum, Humewood, South Africa
[4
]
Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
[5
]
School of Natural Resource Management, George Campus, Nelson Mandela University, George,
South Africa
[6
]
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin,
Germany
[7
]
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Wildlife Management, University of Freiburg, Freiburg,
Germany
[8
]
Laboratoire d’Herpétologie, Département de Biologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences
Naturelles, Lwiro, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
[9
]
Institut Supérieur d'Écologie pour la Conservation de la Nature, Katana Campus, South
Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
[10
]
Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States
of America
[11
]
Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie Médicale, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement,
Dakar, Senegal
[12
]
Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany
[13
]
Museo di Storia naturale del Salento, Calimera, Italy
[14
]
Département des Vertébrés Récents, Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique,
Brussels, Belgium
[15
]
Division of Biology and Conservation Ecology, School of Science and the Environment,
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
[16
]
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Département Systématique
et Evolution (Reptiles), ISyEB (Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité),
Paris, France
[17
]
African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and
Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
[18
]
Flora Fauna & Man, Ecological Services Ltd. Tortola, British Virgin Islands
[19
]
Institut National de Recherche en Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Brazzaville, Republic
of Congo
[20
]
Independent Researcher, Dříteč, Czech Republic
[21
]
Department of Biology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, United States of
America
[22
]
Department of Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
State Museum of Natural History, GERMANY
Author notes
Competing Interests: MFB is affiliated with Flora Fauna & Man, Ecological Services Ltd. This does not alter
our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-19-03110
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214889
PMC ID: 6469773
PubMed ID: 30995262
SO-VID: 7b4157f8-4e88-4653-b596-78da75c6b183
Copyright © © 2019 Portillo et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 31
January
2019
Date
accepted
: 22
March
2019
Page count
Figures: 6,
Tables: 3,
Pages: 32
Funding
Funded by: National Science Foundation
Award ID: DEB-1145459
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-1316
Eli Greenbaum
Funded by: National Geographic Society
Award ID: 8556-08
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-1316
Eli Greenbaum
This work was supported by the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund, an IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist
Group Seed Grant, K. Reed, M.D., research funds from the Department of Biology at
Villanova University, and UTEP (all to EG), National Science Foundation grant DEB-1145459
(to EG and KJ), National Geographic Research and Exploration Grant no. 8556-08 (to
EG), National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project no. EC0715-15 (to WC), Belgian
National Focal Point to the Global Taxonomy Initiative (to ZTN). MOR is supported
by the Gorongosa Restoration Project and the Mozambican Departamento dos Serviços
Cientificos (PNG/DSCi/C12/2013; PNG/DSCi/C12/2014; PNG/DSCi/C28/2015). The University
of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC) Genomic Analysis
Core Facility is acknowledged for services and facilities provided. This core facility
is supported by grant 5G12MD007592 to the (BBRC) from the National Institutes on Minority
Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), a component of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). MFB received payment as a herpetologist consultant with Flora Fauna & Man,
Ecological Services Ltd. (FFMES). The funder provided support in the form of salaries
for one author [MFB], but did not have any additional role in the study design, data
collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The
specific roles of these authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section.
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to
publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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