Ailia coila, also known as the Gangetic ailia is a species of catfish in the family Ailiidae native to India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan.[2][3] This species grows to a length of 30 centimetres (12 in) TL.
| Ailia coila | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ailiidae |
| Genus: | Ailia |
| Species: | A. coila |
| Binomial name | |
| Ailia coila (F. Hamilton, 1822) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Locally this fish is known as "kajoli" in West Bengal. In Bangladesh, people call it "Banspata" (bamboo leaf). Its flesh is regarded as highly palatable.[citation needed]
This fish is of importance to local commercial fisheries.[3]
The habitat of A. coila is sharply decreasing due to natural and anthropogenic causes.[4]
A. coila is most closely related to Eutropiichthys vacha with 85.63% genetic sequence identity.[4]
References
edit- ↑ "Synonyms of Ailia coila (Hamilton, 1822)". Fishbase.org. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ↑ Wang, Jing; Lu, Bin; Zan, Ruigang; Chai, Jing; Ma, Wei; Jin, Wei; Duan, Rongyao; Luo, Jing; Murphy, Robert W.; Xiao, Heng; Chen, Ziming (January 11, 2016). "Phylogenetic Relationships of Five Asian Schilbid Genera Including Clupisoma (Siluriformes: Schilbeidae)". PLOS ONE. 11 (1) e0145675. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1145675W. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145675. PMC 4713424. PMID 26751688.
- 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ailia coila". FishBase. January 2016 version.
- 1 2 Alam, Md. Jobaidul; Andriyono, Sapto; Lee, Soo Rin; Hossain, Mostafa A. R.; Eunus, A. T. M.; Hassan, Md. Tawheed; Kim, Hyun-Woo (2019-07-03). "Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Gangetic ailia, Ailia coila (Siluriformes: Ailiidae)". Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 4 (2): 2258–2259. doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1627942. ISSN 2380-2359. PMC 7687414. PMID 33365500.
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