Sunčica Stipoljevhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4635-6777,¹ Elena Buzanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0714-5301,^2,3,* Laura Iacolinahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-6549,^1,2 Toni Safner,⁴ Andrea Rezić,¹ Ana Galovhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-7286,⁵ Krešimir Križanović,⁶ Hüseyin Ambarlıhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4336-9417,⁷ MariaCruz Arnalhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6770-3400,⁸ Elmar Babaevhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2250-5267,⁹ Ferdinand Bego,¹⁰ Attila Farkas,¹¹ Dragan Gačićhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0434-6562,¹² Peter Lazar,¹³ Vladimir Maletić,¹⁴ Georgi Markov,¹⁵ Dragana Milošević,¹⁶ Haritakis Papaioannou,¹⁷ Massimo Scandurahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2754-6866,¹⁸ Nikica Šprem<sup>1

1</sup>Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
²Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, 6000 Koper, Slovenia
³Faculty of Environmental Protection, 3320 Velenje, Slovenia
⁴Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biometrics, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
⁵Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
⁶Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
⁷Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Düzce University, 81010 Düzce, Turkey
⁸Facultad de Veterinaria, Departamento de Patología Animal, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50002 Zaragoza, Spain
⁹Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Dagestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 367000 Makhachkala, Russia
¹⁰Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Tirana, 1000 Tirana, Albania
¹¹Faculty of Technical and Human Sciences, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, 540003 Târgu-Mureş, Romania
¹²Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
¹³Department for Breeding and Disease of Game and Fish, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, 04000 Košice, Slovakia
¹⁴Faculty of Forestry, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
¹⁵Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
¹⁶Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, 80000 Podgorica, Montenegro
¹⁷Department of Biological Applications and Technology, Biodiversity Conservation Lab, University of Ioannina, 45221 Ioannina, Greece
¹⁸Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy

^*Corresponding author: Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, 6000 Koper, Slovenia. Email: elena.buzan@ upr.si