“…MZ157405) was a 16,919 bp long circular DNA with overall nucleotide frequencies of A = 32.5%, T = 26.2%, C = 28.6%, and G = 12.7% and an A + T content of 58.7%. The GC skew was −0.3850, which showed a remarkable C skew and was similar to the mitogenomes of other Charadriiformes species (Yu et al 2014 ; Yang et al 2016 ). With the exception of COX1 , which started with GTG, all PCGs had typical ATN start codons, and all PCGs ended with a complete triplet codon (TAA, AGG, AGA, or TAG), except for COX3 , ND2 , and ND4 , which ended with an incomplete T. All transfer RNA (tRNA) genes had typical cloverleaf secondary structures, with the exception of tRNA-Ser (AGY), in which the dihydrouridine arm formed a simple loop.…”