Gila (genus)

Gila
Bonytail chub, Gila elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cypriniformes
Family:	Cyprinidae
Subfamily:	Leuciscinae
Genus:	Gila S. F. Baird & Girard, 1853
Species
Nearly 25, see text

Gila is a genus of fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, native to the United States and Mexico. Species of Gila are collectively referred to as western chubs. The chiselmouth is a close relative (Simons & Mayden 1997). Several members of the genus are endangered or extinct due to loss of habitat causing by diversion or overuse of water resources, particularly in the western United States.

Species

• Gila alvordensis C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1972 (Alvord chub)
• Gila atraria (Girard, 1856) (Utah chub)
• Gila bicolor (Girard, 1856) (Tui chub)
  • Gila bicolor bicolor (Girard, 1856) (Tui chub)
  • †Gila bicolor isolata C. L. Hubbs & R. R. Miller, 1972 (Independence Valley tui chub (extinct: c.1975))
  • Gila bicolor mohavensis (Snyder, 1918) (Mohave tui chub)
  • Gila bicolor obesa (Girard, 1856)
  • Gila bicolor pectinifer (Snyder, 1917)
  • Gila bicolor snyderi R. R. Miller, 1973 (Owens Tui Chub)
  • Gila bicolor vaccaceps F. T. Bills & C. E. Bond, 1980
• Gila boraxobius J. E. Williams & C. E. Bond, 1980 (Borax Lake chub)
• Gila brevicauda S. M. Norris, J. M. Fischer & W. L. Minckley, 2003 (Shorttail chub)
• Gila coerulea (Girard, 1856) (Blue chub)
• Gila conspersa Garman, 1881 (Nazas chub)
• †Gila crassicauda (S. F. Baird & Girard, 1854) (Thicktail chub (extinct: late 1950s))
• Gila cypha R. R. Miller, 1946 (Humpback chub)
• Gila ditaenia R. R. Miller, 1945 (Sonora chub)
• Gila elegans S. F. Baird & Girard, 1853 (Bonytail chub, Bonytail)
• Gila eremica DeMarais, 1991 (Desert chub)
• Gila intermedia (Girard, 1856) (Gila chub)
• Gila minacae Meek, 1902 (Mexican roundtail chub)
• Gila modesta (Garman, 1881) (Salinas chub)
• Gila nigra Cope, 1875 (Headwater chub)
• Gila nigrescens (Girard, 1856) (Chihuahua chub)
• Gila orcuttii (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1890) (Arroyo chub)
• Gila pandora (Cope, 1872) (Rio Grande chub)
• Gila pulchra (Girard, 1856) (Conchos chub)
• Gila purpurea (Girard, 1856) (Yaqui chub)
• Gila robusta S. F. Baird & Girard, 1853 (Roundtail chub)
  • Gila robusta jordani V. M. Tanner, 1950 (Pahranagut roundtail chub)
  • Gila robusta robusta S. F. Baird & Girard, 1853 (Roundtail chub)
• Gila seminuda Cope & Yarrow, 1875 (Virgin chub)

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Gila in FishBase. August 2011 version.
• "Gila". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 
• Simons, Andrew M. & Mayden, Richard L. (1997): Phylogenetic Relationships of the Creek Chubs and the Spine-Fins: an Enigmatic Group of North American Cyprinid Fishes (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). Cladistics 13(3): 187-205. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1997.tb00315.x (HTML abstract)