The complete mitochondrial genome of pronghorn spiny lobster Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier, 1791)

In this paper, we determined and characterized the complete mitochondrial genome of Pronghorn spiny lobster Panulirus penicillatus for the first time from South China Sea. The P. penicillatus mitogenome is 15,671 bp long, and consists of 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), and 1 control region. The nucleotide composition of P. penicillatus mitogenome is significantly biased (A, G, T, and C was 33.62, 13.32, 32.31, and 20.75%, respectively) with A + T contents of 65.93%. Almost PCGs used a standard initiation codon or stop codon, except COX2, ND3, ND4 and ND1 were terminated with an incomplete stop codon T and ND5 ended with TA. One microsatellite (C)12 was identified in the control region of P. penicillatus mitogenome sequences. Phylogenetic tree showed that P. penicillatus was first clustered with P. polyphagus and P. versicolor.