Acknowledgements

We thank Subodh Sharma for obtaining the fieldwork permit from Kathmandu University. We are thankful to Xianfu Li and Lu Tan for their help with the fieldwork permit. We thank Jaime R. Garcia Marquez for providing valuable advice in species distribution modelling. We thank Oskar Schröder, Jacqueline Heckenhauer, and Shenglin Liu for giving professional suggestions on data analyses, results interpretation and comments on the manuscript. We thank Angelika Losey Kurthen, Jiatang Li, and a number of Nepalese students for supporting our fieldwork.
This research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), grant number PA 1617/2‐1 and PA 1617/2‐2 awarded to SUP, JA 1827/6-2 awarded to SCJ, DO 1880/3-2 to SD, and AF 1117/1-2 awarded to AF. Reference genome sequencing was supported through the LOEWE–“Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz” of Hesse’s Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts. We acknowledge funding through German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant 033W034A). SD acknowledges funding by the Leibniz-Competition (J45/2018). SCJ acknowledges funding through the Leibniz Competition project “Freshwater Megafauna Futures”.