Table 1.

Shark species identified using COI and NADH2 sequences, their conservation status according to national and international listings, and percentage similarity with sequences deposited in NCBI and BOLD. Threat categories for IUCN and Ordinance 445: DD – Data Deficient, LC – Least Concern, VU – Vulnerable, NT – Near Threatened, EN – Endangered, CR – Critically Endangered, − = no classification. Species are ordered by their frequency of occurrence.

Species	Conservation status (or listing) according to:			COI and/orNADH2	BLAST %
	Ordinance 445	CITES	IUCN	Number of specimens identified (% of the total)	COI	NADH2
Rhizoprionodon porosus	—	—	LC	142 (33.1)	100	100
Carcharhinus acronotus	—	—	NT	68 (15.88)	100	100
Carcharhinus porosus	CR	—	DD	42 (9.81)	100	100
Sphyrna mokarran	EN	Appendix II	EN	40 (9.34)	100	100
Sphyrna lewini	CR	Appendix II	EN	18 (4.2)	100	100
Carcharhinus leucas	—	—	NT	17 (3.97)	100	100
Ginglymostoma cirratum	VU	—	DD	14 (3.27)	100	100
Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus	CR	—	CR	14 (3.27)	100	—
Sphyrna tiburo	CR	—	LC	12 (2.8)	—	100
Galeocerdo cuvier	—	—	NT	12 (2.8)	100	100
Carcharhinus falciformis	—	Appendix II	NT	11 (2.57)	—	99
Sphyrna tudes	CR	—	VU	10 (2.33)	100	100
Carcharhinus limbatus	—	—	NT	9 (2.10)	100	100
Mustelus higmani	—	—	LC	8 (1.86)	—	99
Mustelus canis	EN	—	NT	8 (1.86)	—	99
Squalus brevirostris/megalops	—	—	DD/DD	1 (0.23)	—	98
Rhizoprionodon lalandii	—	—	DD	1 (0.23)	—	100
Total				427