About the Authors

Thomas S. Bibby

Affiliations School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Yinan Zhang

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Min Chen

minchen@bio.usyd.edu.au

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TSB MC. Analyzed the data: TSB YZ MC. Wrote the paper: TSB MC. Initiated the study and designed the methodology: TSB MC. The phylogenetic analysis and data collection from Camera (http://camera.calit2.net/) were performed by: YZ MC. Biogeographic statistical analysis was performed by: TSB. Read and approved the final version of the manuscript: TSB YZ MC.