About the Authors

Juan Carlos Rando

canariomys@yahoo.es

Affiliation Departamento de Biología Animal, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

Josep Antoni Alcover

Affiliation Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, CSIC-UIB, Esporles, Mallorca, Spain

Juan Carlos Illera

Affiliations Island Ecology and Evolution Research Group, IPNA-CSIC, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, Instituto Cantábrico de Biodiversidad, CSIC-UO-PA, Oviedo, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: JCR JAA JCI. Conceived and designed the paper: JCR JAA JCI. Anatomical comparisons, measurements and morphological analyses: JCR JAA. Performed DNA extractions, amplifications, phylogenetic and morphological analyses: JCI.