The complete mitochondrial genome of Spurilla braziliana MacFarland 1909 (Nudibranchia, Aeolidiidae)

Figures & data

Figure 1. The individual of S. braziliana used in this study. Its morphotype is similar to the one shown in Figure 4(E) in the previous taxonomic study (Carmona et al. 2014). The picture was taken by Hideaki Mizobata.

Table 1. The list of species, GenBank accession ID, and references used for alignments (Supplementary Data 1).

Scientific name	GenBank accession ID	Reference
*Spurilla braziliana	LC759638	This study
Goniobranchus leopardus	MZ747465	–
Chromodoris orientalis	MH550543	Yu et al. (2018)
Glossodoris acosti	MZ823409	–
Hypselodoris festiva	KU365323	Karagozlu et al. (2016a, 2016b)
Verconia nivalis	OL800586	Do et al. (2022)
Polycera hedgpethi	MZ713367	–
Triopha modesta	MW387958	Do et al. (2022)
Doris odhneri	OL800585	Do et al. (2022)
Asteronotus hepaticus	MW559976	–
Carminodoris armata	OL800584	Do et al. (2022)
Notodoris gardineri	DQ991934	Medina et al. (2011)
Phyllidiopsis krempfi	MT726194	Kim et al. (2021)
Phyllidiella pustulosa	MK279705	Dinh Do, Choi, et al. (2019); Dinh Do, Kim, et al. (2019)
Roboastra europaea	AY083457	Grande et al. (2004)
Phestilla sp.	PN553001	–
*Dermatobranchus otome	MT527185	Do et al. (2020)
*Tritonia diomedea	KP764765	Sevigny et al. (2015)
*Melibe leonina	KP764764	Sevigny et al. (2015)
*Sakuraeolis japonica	KX610997	Karagozlu et al. (2016a, 2016b)
*Hermissenda emurai	MK279704	Dinh Do, Choi, et al. (2019); Dinh Do, Kim, et al. (2019)
*Berghia stephanieae	MW027646	Melo Clavijo et al. (2021)

Species used to create the molecular phylogenetic tree (Figure 3) are indicated by an asterisk.

Figure 2. Circular map of the complete mitochondrial genome annotated to show the locations and orientation of its 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 23 tRNA genes. The upper arrows indicate the direction of transcription, while the inner gray circle represents the GC content.

Figure 3. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of S. braziliana and six other Cladobranchia species based on the concatenated amino acid alignments of the 13 protein-coding genes in the mitochondrial genome. Bootstrap support values are shown for each node, based on 1000 replicates. The list of species and their GenBank accession IDs are shown in Table 1.

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Data availability statement

The genome sequence data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov under the accession ID: LC759638. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-sample numbers are PRJDB15401, DRR450785, and SAMD00585630, respectively.