The fish were then preserved using diluted formaldehyde for fixation, and subsequently placed in ethanol for long-term storage at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum.
From the extracted tissue, researchers sequenced the CO1 gene, also known as the barcode gene, and the 12S gene, both used to identify the species.
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