Acknowledgements
We are indebted to the members of the Giribet lab, especially to Shahan
Derkarabetian for his advice during lab work and UCEs assembly. We are
also grateful to the Bauer Core and the RC Computing team. We are
especially thankful to Tauana J. Cunha and the MaRHE Center staff for
their help while collecting in the Maldives and for providing
photographs of live specimens. We appreciate the samples donated from
the GROC Association
(https://opistobranquis.org/en/home)
and M. A. E. Malaquias (University Museum of Bergen). Specimen
collection was funded by a Putnam Expedition Grant from the Museum of
Comparative Zoology to JM. Lab and analytical work were supported by
internal funds from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard
University, to GG. JM postdoctoral fellowships were supported by the
Ramón Areces (Spain) and the Alexander von Humboldt (Germany)
Foundations.