Morphological examination cannot be used for samples that
have no visually recognizable features or the samples, which have
been otherwise altered. In this regard, molecular identification
techniques have proved to be an effective tool for species
identification [5–12]. Among the advance molecular identification
techniques, DNA barcoding technique using the 648 bp sequence
of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COI) gene has proved to be a reliable tool
for species identification [13–19]. This technique is based on the
use of taxon specific primers for the amplification of a target region
in the COI gene (usually from position 58 to 705 relative to mouse
mitochondrial genome [20]) followed by sequencing the amplicon