Competing interest
A.V. and T.D. are research scientists at a private company specialising in the use of eDNA for species detection.
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Data Accessibility:The complete database is available at fighshare:
10.6084/m9.figshare.12046242
(the link will become active upon manuscript acceptance)
The filtered sequences generated by the project will be uploaded on GenBank upon manuscript acceptance (accession numbers: XXXXXX-XXXXXX).