The mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic position of a marine snail Nerita (Heminerita) japonica (Gastropoda: Neritimorpha: Neritidae)

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome of the neritid snail Nerita (Heminerita) japonica (Mollusca: Neritimorpha) from Kumamoto, Japan was determined by whole-genome sequencing. This mitogenome is comprised of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (12S and 16S) genes, and 22 transfer RNA genes, with the same gene order as in the other species of the family Neritidae. A likelihood-based phylogenetic reconstruction recovered the subgenus Heminerita (including N. japonica as its type and N. yoldii from China) as monophyletic and sister to a clade with four species of the subgenera Nerita and Theliostyla.

Keywords:

• Mollusca
• Neritinae
• Neritoidea
• next-generation sequencing
• phylogenetic tree

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Tsuyoshi Takano (Meguro Parasitological Museum) and Genki Kobayashi (Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, Kyoto University) for collecting the specimen of N. (H.) japonica.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) at http://getentry.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/top-e.html, reference number LC565707.

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Funding

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI [grant numbers 15K20922 and 18J01965] and Project for Environmental Genomics Studies by NIES.