The published complete mitochondrial genome of Spotted Greenshank ( Tringa guttifer ) is a chimera with DNA from Red-necked Stint ( Calidris ruficollis ) (Aves: Charadriiformes).

A recently published complete mitochondrial genome of Spotted Greenshank ( Tringa guttifer ) was the first DNA sequence of this species (GenBank accession number MK905885, RefSeq number NC_044665; Liu et al. 2019, The complete mitochondrial genome of the Spotted Greenshank Tringa guttifer (Charadriiforemes [sic]: Charadriidae), Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 4:2353-2354). Here we show that this mitogenome is actually a chimera containing DNA fragments of both a Tringa sandpiper (presumably T. guttifer ) and the Red-necked Stint ( Calidris ruficollis ). This mitogenome has been re-used in at least three phylogenies. The error is documented to avoid the perpetuation of erroneous sequence information in the literature.