Table 1. Assignment of COI gene sequences of fish larvae collected along a latitudinal gradient in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean to taxonomic groups in the databases GenBank and BOLD.

Number of sequences assigned to only one of the databases, to the two of them (concordance), discrepancy between the two databases (discrepancy), and ambiguous assignment due to identical match in BOLD (ambiguity), and number of sequences assigned to each taxonomic level (final assignment). The sequences finally assigned to a level include the concordant cases in such level plus the discrepant/ambiguous cases of the lower level.

	GenBank	BOLD	Concordance	Discrepancy	Ambiguity	Final Assignment
Order	8	0	0	0	0	10
Family	0	0	0	0	2	22
Genus	0	5	11	4	18	84
Species	0	58	63	2	66	121
n	8	63	74	6	86	237