Ornamental fishes are traded with multiple names from various parts around the world, including North East India.
Most are collected from the wild, due to lack of species-specific culture or breeding, and therefore, such un- managed collection of the wild and endemic species could lead to severe threats to biodiversity.
Despite many regulatory policies, trade of threatened species, including the IUCN listed species have been largely uncontrolled, due to species identification problems arising from the utilization of multiple trade names. So, the development of species-specific DNA marker is indispensable where DNA Barcoding is proved to be helpful in species identi- fication.
Here, we investigated, through DNA Barcoding and morphological assessment, the identification of 128 ornamental fish specimens exported from NE India from different exporters.