The mitogenome of the California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis)

Abstract

We report the complete mitogenome for the California grunion (Leuresthes tenuis), a beach-spawning silverside fish endemic to eastern Pacific coastal waters of California, USA and Baja California, Mexico. Approximately, 28,428 short reads from a shotgun gDNA library were mapped to a reference mitogenome of Menidia menidia. The resulting L. tenuis mitogenome is 16,719 bases in length. We further provide a Bayesian phylogenetic tree showing relationships among L. tenuis and other Atheriniform fishes.

Keywords

• grunion
• atheriniformes
• atherinopsinae