Complete chloroplast genome of , one of the causal species of green macroalgal blooms in the coastal waters of Qinhuangdao, China.

Since 2015, macroalgae blooms have appeared along the Qinhuangdao coast of the Bohai Sea in China and they have recurred annually during the months of April to September. One of the causal species that results in the macroalgal blooms, , has been detrimental to the environment and ecosystem along the coast of the Qinhuangdao, China. In the present study, we sequenced the chloroplast genome of for the first time (GenBank accession number MN853875) and found that the annular genome comprised 104,380 base pairs, including 71 protein-coding genes, 26 tRNAs, and 2 rRNAs. We then constructed a phylogenetic tree of and 17 other species based on core genes, which showed that is the closest sister species of