Supplementary Table 1: Information on specimens and sequences used in the maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI).

Species / Catalog Number / Sample ID / Collection locallity / GenBank accession / Sequence reference
Boops boops / no information available / BoBo24C / Eastern Mediterranean, Israel / KM538222 / Shirak et al. 2016
Crenidens indicus / not available / MUFS36567 / Arabian Sea, Pakistan / MF358874 / this study
Crenidens indicus / not available / MUFS36568 / Arabian Sea, Pakistan / MF358875 / this study
Crenidens indicus / not available / MUFS36569 / Arabian Sea, Pakistan / MF358876 / this study
Crenidens indicus / not available / MUFS36570 / Arabian Sea, Pakistan / MF358877 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / SMF 35159 / KAU13-118 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346576 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / SMF 35159 / KAU13-119 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346577 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / KAUMM 164 / KAU13-120 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346578 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / KAUMM 426 / KAU13-404 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346579 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / KAUMM 425 / KAU13-405 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346580 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / SMF 35848 / KAU13-406 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346581 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / SMF 35849 / KAU13-408 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346582 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / SMF 35850 / KAU13-420 / Red Sea, Al Wajh bank, Saudi Arabia / MF346583 / this study
Crenidens crenidens / AUBM Lot 12 / AUBM Lot 12 / Eastern Mediterranean, Lebanon / KR861522 / Bariche et al. 2015
Crenidens crenidens / AMS I.33820.023 / CCRE1 / Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Israel / KJ767818 / Armani et al.
Crenidens crenidens / no information available / CcrR1 / Red Sea, Suez Canal, Egypt / LC155797 / Abbas et al. 2017
Crenidens crenidens / SAIAB 88324 / ADC08 Smith 183.14 #1 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / JF493278 / Steinke et al. 2016
Crenidens crenidens / SAIAB 88324 / ADC08 Smith 183.14 #2 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / JF493279 / Steinke et al. 2016
Crenidens crenidens / SAIAB 88324 / ADC08 Smith 183.14 #4 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / JF493280 / Steinke et al. 2016
Crenidens crenidens / SAIAB 88324 / ADC08 Smith 183.14 #5 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / JF493281 / Steinke et al. 2016
Crenidens crenidens / SAIAB 88324 / ADC08 Smith 183.14 #3 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / JF493282 / Steinke et al. 2016
Crenidens crenidens / no information available / ODUT-B15.78 / Indian Ocean / KT883628 / Sanciangco et al. 2016
Crenidens crenidens / unvouchered / L-III-E11-1 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / not available / unpublished
Crenidens crenidens / unvouchered / L-III-E11-2 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / not available / unpublished
Crenidens crenidens / unvouchered / L-III-E11-3 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / not available / unpublished
Crenidens crenidens / unvouchered / L-III-E11-4 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / not available / unpublished
Crenidens crenidens / unvouchered / L-III-E11-5 / Southwest Indian Ocean, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / not available / unpublished

Sequence references:

Abbas EM, Soliman T, El-Magd MA, Farrag MMS, Ismail RF, Kato M (2017) Phylogeny and DNA barcoding of the family Sparidae inferred from mitochondrial DNA of the Egyptian waters. J Fish Aquat Sci 12:73–81

Armani A, Guardone L, Castigliego L, D'Amico P, Messina A, Malandra R, Gianfaldoni D, Guidi A (2015) DNA and Mini-DNA barcoding for the identification of porgies species (family Sparidae) of commercial interest on the international market. Food Control 50:589–596

Bariche M, Torres M, Smith C, Sayar N, Azzurro E, Baker R, Bernardi G (2015) Red Sea fishes in the Mediterranean Sea: a preliminary investigation of a biological invasion using DNA barcoding. J Biogeogr 42(12):2363–2373

Sanciangco MD, Carpenter KE, Betancur-R. R (2016) Phylogenetic placement of enigmatic percomorph families (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 94(Pt B):565–576

Shirak A, Dor L, Seroussi E, Ron M, Hulata G, Golani D (2016) DNA barcoding of fish species from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Mediterr Mar Sci 17(2):459–466

Steinke D, Connell AD, Hebert PDN (2016) Linking adults and immatures of South African marine fishes. Genome 59(11):959–967