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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
The authors would like to thank Patrick Jules Atagana and Marcel Leno for their assistance 
during the 2018 field expedition to Nimba. We would also like to thank Darrin Lunde (USNM) 
and Roberto Portela Miguez (BMNH) for access to specimens needed for this project, and for 
kindly hosting N.B.S. during visits to their respective institutions. We also thank Bruce Pat- 
terson and Terry Demos (FMNH) for prepublication access to their data, and Bruce Patterson 
and Gabor Csorba for thoughtful reviews of the manuscript. A.E.M. was supported by a Ger- 
stner Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History. 
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