“…DNA barcoding combined with a molecular phylogenetic tree is a system designed for precise and accurate identification of a species using a short and standardized gene region (Hebert et al, 2003). Research on DNA Barcode and phylogenetic tree has been carried out on marine organism like fish (Khansa et al, 2023;Nursalim et al, 2022;Syaifudin et al, 2021), shellfish (Beden and Karahan, 2020;Praipue et al, 2021), crustacean (Irwani et al, 2020;Vella and Vella, 2022; ) and coral reef (Wijayanti et al, 2017a;Wijayanti et al, 2018). The most promising benefit of DNA barcoding and phylogenetic tree for species authentication lies in the ability to identify early stages that cannot be done by using morphological descriptions and inter species connections.…”