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Gila Baird & Girard, 1853

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
GENUS
Published in
Baird, W. (1853). Catalogue of the species of Entozoa, or intestinal worms, contained in the collection of the British Museum [by William Baird]. <em>London.</em> 132 pp.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Cypriniformes
family
Cyprinidae
genus
Gila

Name

Synonyms
Cheonda Girard, 1856
Klamathella Miller, 1945
Leucus Agassiz, 1846
Myloleucus Cope, 1872
Protoporus Cope, 1872
Siboma Girard, 1856
Temeculina Cockerell, 1909
Tigoma Girard, 1856
Homonyms
Gila Baird & Girard, 1853
Common names
Carpitas in Spanish
Gilas in Latvian
dlátovka in Czech
western chubs in English
western chubs in English
Гилы in Russian

Bibliographic References

  1. Baird, [W.]. (1853). Catalogue of the Species of Entozoa, or Intestinal worms, Contained in the Collection of the British Museum. <em>London: British Museum.</em> 1-132, pls. 1, 2. 10.5962/bhl.title.21590
  2. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  3. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
  4. Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
  5. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  6. FishBase
  7. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  8. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  9. Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
  10. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 6
  11. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  12. SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
  13. Schönhuth, S., A. Perdices, L. Lozano-Vilano, F. J. García-de-León, H. Espinosa, and R. L. Mayden, 2014: Phylogenetic relationships of North American western chubs of the genus Gila (Cyprinidae, Teleostei), with emphasis on southern species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 70. 210-230.
  14. Schönhuth, Susana, Jasna Vukic, Radek Sanda, Lei Yang, Richard L. Mayden, 2018: Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Holarctic family Leuciscidae (Cypriniformes: Cyprinoidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 127. 781-799.
  15. Tan, Milton, and Jonathon W. Armbruster, 2018: Phylogenetic classification of extant genera of fishes of the order Cypriniformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi). Zootaxa, vol. 4476, no. 1. 6-39.
  16. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
  17. WoRMS (Mar 2013)
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