“…The phylogenetic trees were inferred from CO1 and 12S rRNA concatenated sequences using Bayesian inferences (BI) and maximum likelihood (ML) in MrBayes 3.2.6 and W-IQ-TREE, respectively (Ronquist and Huelsenbeck, 2003;Nguyen et al, 2015;Trifinopoulos et al, 2016). Selected sequences downloaded from GenBank-including Tetraclita japonica (AB126701), T. kuroshioensis (MW298526), T. rufotincta (KY865100), T. serrata (KJ434948), T. squamosa (MT232759), T. rosea (KY865099), and T. divisa (KJ754822)-were included in the analysis (Shen et al, 2015;Song et al, 2017;Tsang et al, 2017;Cai et al, 2018;Feng et al, 2020;Ji et al, 2021). The sequences of Balanus balanus (KM660676), Chthamalus antennatus (KP294312), and Pollicipes polymerus (AY456188) were also used as outgroups (Lavrov et al, 2004;Shen et al, 2016).…”