The mitochondrial genomes of five spring and groundwater amphipods of the family Crangonyctidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from eastern North America

We sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of one spring-dwelling (Crangonyx forbesi) and four groundwater amphipods (Stygobromus pizzinii, Stygobromus allegheniensis, Stygobromus tenuis potomacus, Bactrurus brachycaudus ) from eastern North America using a shotgun sequencing approach on an Illumina HiSeq 4000. Our contribution of these five crangonyctid mitogenomes add to the increasing publicly available mitogenome resources for amphipods and will be highly valuable for inferring the phylogenetic relationships, biogeography, and trait evolution of amphipods.