Ailia_coila

<i>Ailia coila</i>

Ailia coila

Species of fish

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.

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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

  1. [1]
    "Synonyms of Ailia coila (Hamilton, 1822)". Fishbase.org. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Ailia coila" in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  4. [4]
    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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