“…DNA barcoding based on the CO1 sequencing has proved to be an effective tool in distinguishing between different species in most of the main animal groups, including the phylum Mollusca (Folmer et al ., 1994; Anderson, 2000; Giribet et al ., 2006; Chen et al ., 2011), in particular, the class Cephalopoda (e.g. Carlini and Graves, 1999; Takumiya et al ., 2005; Dai et al ., 2012; Wen et al ., 2017; Maggioni et al ., 2020; Afiati et al ., 2022). It was shown earlier that partial sequencing of the CO1 gene marker (658 bp) can be successfully used for species identification in the family Gonatidae (Katugin et al ., 2017).…”