Gila (genus)

Gila (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Gila"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Bonytail chub, "Gila elegans"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Cypriniformes
familia = Cyprinidae
subfamilia = Leuciscinae
genus = "Gila"
genus_authority = Baird and Girard, 1853
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = Nearly 25, see text

"Gila" is a genus of fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae, native to North America and Central America. 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.

pecies

*"Gila alvordensis", Alvord chub
*"Gila atraria", Utah chub
*"Gila bicolor", Tui chub
**"Gila bicolor isolata", Independence Valley tui chub (extinct: c.1975)
**"Gila bicolor mohavensis", Mohave tui chub
*"Gila boraxobius", Borax Lake chub
*"Gila brevicauda", Shorttail chub
*"Gila coerulea", Blue chub
*"Gila conspersa", Nazas chub
*"Gila crassicauda", Thicktail chub (extinct: late 1950s)
*"Gila cypha", Humpback chub
*"Gila ditaenia", Sonora chub
*"Gila elegans", Bonytail chub or Bonytail
*"Gila eremica", Desert chub
*"Gila intermedia", Gila chub
*"Gila minacae", Mexican roundtail chub
*"Gila modesta", Salinas chub
*"Gila nigra", Headwater chub
*"Gila nigrescens", Chihuahua chub
*"Gila orcuttii", Arroyo chub
*"Gila pandora", Rio Grande chub
*"Gila pulchra", Conchos chub
*"Gila purpurea", Yaqui chub
*"Gila robusta" , Roundtail chub
*"Gila seminuda", Virgin chub

References

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*ITIS|ID=163541|taxon=Gila|year=2006|date=11 March
* (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)


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