Table 2 Primer sets’ sequences for the three monk-seal specific molecular assays. Oligos named “Mmo…” are the species-specific primers (in bold), while those labelled “MarVer…” are the universal marine vertebrate primers described in Valsecchi et al. (2020). The suffixes “nd” followed by a letter (e.g. “ndC”) indicate the non-degenerate form of a specific primer where the letter indicates the mammalian specific nucleotide used in place of the degenerate base (see Appendix S2 in Valsecchi et al. 2020).