Gila nigra Cope, 1875

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
SPECIES: Published in
Cope, E. D.; Yarrow, H. C. (1875). Report upon the collections of fishes made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Engineer Department, United States Army, Report upon the Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys west of the one hundredth Meridian. v. 5 (Zoology) Chapter 6: 635-703, Pls. 26-32.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: order
Cypriniformes: family
Cyprinidae: genus
Gila: species
Gila nigra

Name

Homonyms: Gila nigra Cope, 1875
Common names: Headwater Chub in English; headwater chub in English; Headwater Chub in English

Bibliographic References

Carter, Julie Meka, Matthew J. Clement, Andy S. Makinster, Clayton D. Crowder, et al., 2018: Classification Success of Species within the Gila robusta Complex Using Morphometric and Meristic Characters - A Reexamination. Copeia, vol.106, no. 2. 279-291.
Cope, E. D.; Yarrow, H. C. (1875). Report upon the collections of fishes made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Engineer Department, United States Army, Report upon the Geographical and Geological Explorations and Surveys west of the one hundredth Meridian. v. 5 (Zoology) Chapter 6: 635-703, Pls. 26-32.
Copus, Joshua M., W. L. Montgomery, Zac H. Forsman, Brian W. Bowen, and Robert J. Toonen, 2018: Geopolitical species revisited: genomic and morphological data indicate that the roundtail chub Gila robusta species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) is a single species. PeerJ 6:e5605. 1-32.
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
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.
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2012: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Native Species That Are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened; Annual Notice of Findings on Resubmitted Petitions; Annual Description of Progress on Listing Actions. Federal Register, vol. 77, no. 225. 69994-70060.