Species Identification of Marine Fishes in China with DNA Barcoding

Table 1

Genetic divergences (percentage, K2P distance) within various taxonomic levels. Data are based on 321 sequences (>500 bp) from 122 species.

Comparisons within	Taxa	Number of comparisons	Mean	Median	Minimum	Maximum	s.e.^#
Species	121	453	0.319	0.150	0	2.021*	0.018
Genus	85	397	15.742	16.490	0.154**	25.189	0.292
Family	55	848	20.199	19.850	11.532	34.333	0.134
Order	15	17881	24.656	—	12.923	39.627	0.024
Class	2	29262	25.225	—	15.730	40.800	0.016

* Pennahia anea; ** Pampus argenteus versus Pampus cinereus.
^# Standard error.