The complete mitochondrial DNA of the endemic shortfin silverside, Chirostoma humboldtianum (Valenciennes, 1835).

The shortfin silversideChirostoma humboldtianum, is an endemic fish from the Mesa Central of Mexico, it is considered the “ancestral” species of the “peces blancos” and plays an important role as a potential species for aquaculture.Here we sequence its mitogenome (Genbank accession number KJ921739), which has a total length of 16,447 bp, and the arrangement consist of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes and 22 transfer RNA similar to other Atheriniformes. This mitogenome will be useful for phylogenetic, population and phylogeographic studies of this and other important atherinopsid species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]