Table 3.

Genetic matrix for newly obtained COI sequences of Gnathia tridens, indicating the percentage similarity below the diagonal division and the nucleotide p-distances above the division

COI sequences for Gnathia spp.		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1	PV213449 Gnathia tridens		0.000	0.318	0.264	0.322	0.335	0.287	0.282	0.328	0.284	0.327
2	PV213450 Gnathia tridens	100		0.319	0.264	0.321	0.338	0.288	0.284	0.327	0.284	0.329
3	MW804340 Gnathia camuripenis	68.2	68.1		0.313	0.318	0.313	0.305	0.325	0.320	0.272	0.313
4	OR064533 Gnathia jimmybuffetti	73.6	73.6	68.7		0.307	0.342	0.301	0.270	0.330	0.292	0.332
5	AB713956 Gnathia limicola	67.8	67.9	68.2	69.3		0.313	0.322	0.337	0.387	0.308	0.333
6	AB713961 Gnathia maculosa	66.2	65.9	68.3	65.5	68.3		0.326	0.345	0.363	0.303	0.260
7	MW837265 Gnathia malaysiensis	71.3	71.2	69.5	69.9	67.8	66.9		0.322	0.329	0.296	0.333
8	MT186550 Gnathia marleyi	71.8	71.6	67.5	73	66.3	65.2	67.8		0.340	0.315	0.333
9	PMACA067-17 Gnathia maxillaris	67.2	67.3	68	67	61.3	63.4	67.1	66		0.350	0.334
10	NOISO088-15 Gnathia oxyuraea	71.6	71.6	72.8	70.8	69.2	69.3	70.4	68.5	65		0.298
11	AB13956 Gnathia trimaculata	67	66.7	68.3	66.5	66.3	74	66.2	66.3	66.2	69.8

Column headings represent the corresponding species number in the first column of the row title. Novel sequences are indicated in bold