[Hydrophidae identification through analysis on cytochrome c oxydase I（COI） and ribosome 16s rDNA gene barcode].

Hydrophidae, one of the precious traditional Chinese medicines, is generally drily preserved to prevent corruption, but it is hard to identify the species of Hydrophidae through the appearance because of the change due to the drying process. The identification through analysis on gene barcode, a new technique in species identification, can avoid this problem. The gene barcodes of the 5 species of Hydrophidae, Lapemis hardwickii, Hydrophis fasciatus, Aipysurus eydouxii, Hydrophis belcher and Hydrophis lamberti, were acquired through DNA extraction and gene sequencing. These barcodes were then in sequence alignment and test the identification efficiency by BLAST. Our results showed that the 16S rDNA sequences identified Hydrophidae briefly and the COI sequenceshad obvious difference between intra-and inter-species, indicating that DNA bar-coding was an efficiency method of Hydrophidae identification. Copyright© by the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association.