Amir, Shabir Ali http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3123-4160
Zhang, Baidong
Masroor, Rafaqat
Li, Yulong
Xue, Dong-Xiu
Rashid, Shahnaz
Ahmad, Naveed
Mushtaq, Safia
Durand, Jean-Dominique
Liu, Jinxian
Funding for this research was provided by:
the cas president's international fellowship initiative (pifi), china (392370219690907014)
Article History
Received: 29 June 2021
Revised: 2 February 2022
Accepted: 18 March 2022
First Online: 18 July 2022
Declarations
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for animal testing, animal care, and the use of animals were followed by the authors.
: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities.
: DNA sequences were uploaded to NCBI, with the following GenBank Accessions: MN511846–MN512146, MN530052, and MN530053 (see Table InternalRef removed). All collecting and sequence data are available on the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) under the project “Barcoding of Coastal Fishes of Pakistan (BCFPA).”
: Shabir Ali Amir carried out the major research of this paper including field sampling, laboratory analysis, manuscript writing, and revisions; Baidong Zhang contributed mainly on laboratory barcoding analysis; Li Yu Long and Xue Dong Xiu contributed to the laboratory protocols; Rafaqat Masroor carried out part of field sampling and helped in the manuscript preparation; Safia Mushtaq and Shahnaz Rashid mainly helped in field collection of some problematic fish groups; Naveed Ahmed helped in acquiring a collection of flatfishes and morphometric identification of fishes; Jean-Dominique Durand helped in preparing Fig. InternalRef removed and in the discussion section of the manuscript; Jinxian Liu designed and advised this research, and made a major contribution to data analyses, manuscript writing, and its revision.