Marin, A.

The complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered spotted eagle ray Aetobatus ocellatus was determined for the first time using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) reads mined from the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) of the GenBank database (BioSample SAMN31811701, collection site: Bohol Island, Philippines). The spotted eagle ray mitogenome (GenBank accession pending) has 20,217 bp in length displaying a typical vertebrate mitogenome organization (13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a control region). A phylogenetic analysis based on the nucleotide sequence information of 13 protein-coding genes from different related species confirmed the species status of A. ocellatus as an Indo-West Pacific species, which was formerly described as A. narinari whose current accepted distribution is restricted to the Atlantic Ocean.