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Hong Kong does not have her own wild crocodilians; thus, all crocodilians meat available is presumably imported with proper license. Here, we obtained a dataset of cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene markers of 114 crocodilian meat samples (including frozen and dried crocodilian meat products) available in the contemporary market. We have also validated these barcodes in a phylogenetic approach with other data deposited on the GenBank, and detected 112 samples belonging to four crocodile species <jats:italic>Crocodylus siamensis<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>C. porosus<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>C. niloticus<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Alligator mississippiensis<\/jats:italic>, and 2 samples belonging to snake <jats:italic>Malayopython reticulatus<\/jats:italic>. 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