Ailia coila

Ailia coila
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Ailiidae
Genus:	Ailia
Species:	A. coila
Binomial name
	Ailia coila; (F. Hamilton, 1822)
Synonyms
	Malapterurus coila F. Hamilton, 1822; Silurus cuvieri Gray, 1830; Malapterus cuvieri (Gray, 1930); Malapterus bengalensis Gray, 1830; Ailia bengalensis (Gray, 1830); Acanthonotus hardwickii Gray, 1830; Ailia affinis Günther, 1864;

Ailia coila, also known as the Gangetic ailia is a species of catfish in the family Ailiidae native to Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.^[2]^[3] This species grows to a length of 30 centimetres (12 in) TL. This fish is of importance to local commercial fisheries.^[3]

References

^ "Synonyms of Ailia coila (Hamilton, 1822)". Fishbase.org. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
^ Wang, J., Lu, B., Zan, R., Chai, J., Ma, W., Jin, W., Duan, R., Luo, J., Murphy, R.W., Xiao, H. & Chen, Z. (2016): Phylogenetic Relationships of Five Asian Schilbid Genera Including Clupisoma (Siluriformes: Schilbeidae). PLoS ONE, 11 (1): e0145675.
^ ^a ^b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Ailia coila" in FishBase. January 2016 version.

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