Shen K. N. auteur aut IRD Chang C. W. auteur aut IRD Tsai S. Y. auteur aut IRD Wu S. C. auteur aut IRD Lin Z. H. auteur aut IRD Chan Y. F. auteur aut IRD Chen C. H. auteur aut IRD Hsiao C. D. auteur aut IRD Borsa Philippe auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access The Leopard whipray (Himantura leoparda) and Blue-spotted stingray (Neotrygon kuhlii) are distributed in the Indian and West Pacific Ocean and considered as complex species based on morphological and molecular evidences. In this study, we used the next-generation sequencing method to decode two complete mitogenomes of H. leoparda and N. kuhlii. The assembled mitogenome, consisting lengths of 17,690 bp for H. leoparda and 17,974 bp for N. kuhlii, shows 78% identity to each other. Both mitogenomes follow the typical vertebrate arrangement, including 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs, 2 ribosomal RNAs genes and a non-coding control region of D-loop. D-loop with the lengths 1931 bp (H. leoparda) and 2243 bp (N. kuhlii) is located between tRNA-Pro and tRNA-Phe. The overall GC content is 40.3% for H. leoparda and 39.8% for N. kuhlii. The complete mitogenome of H. leoparda and N. kuhlii provides essential and important DNA molecular data for further phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses for stingray species complex. specialized Blue-spotted stingray leopard whipray mitogenome next generation sequencing OCEAN INDIEN PACIFIQUE 034 27 4 2613-2614 2016 1940-1736 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010066976 10.3109/19401736.2015.1041119 1940-1736 [F B010066976] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010066976 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2016/07/010066976.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2016-08-01 2017-08-23 fdi:010066976 fre