Marine Species Traits - Gila Baird & Girard, 1853

Traits taxon details

Gila Baird & Girard, 1853

AphiaID

269208 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269208)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Leuciscinae Bonaparte, 1835

Synonymised names

Acrocheilus Agassiz, 1855 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Gila alutacea (Agassiz & Pickering, 1855)
Species Gila atraria (Girard, 1856)
Species Gila brevicauda Norris, Fischer & Minckley, 2003
Species Gila coerulea (Girard, 1856)
Species Gila conspersa Garman, 1881
Species Gila coriacea (Hubbs & Miller, 1948)
Species Gila crassicauda (Baird & Girard, 1854)
Species Gila cypha Miller, 1946
Species Gila ditaenia Miller, 1945
Species Gila elegans Baird & Girard, 1853
Species Gila eremica DeMarais, 1991
Species Gila intermedia (Girard, 1856)
Species Gila minacae Meek, 1902
Species Gila modesta (Garman, 1881)
Species Gila nigra Cope, 1875
Species Gila nigrescens (Girard, 1856)
Species Gila orcuttii (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1890)
Species Gila pandora (Cope, 1872)
Species Gila pulchra (Girard, 1856)
Species Gila purpurea (Girard, 1856)
Species Gila robusta Baird & Girard, 1853
Species Gila seminuda Cope & Yarrow, 1875
Species Gila bicolor (Girard, 1856) accepted as Siphateles bicolor (Girard, 1856)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Baird, [W.]. (1853). Catalogue of the Species of Entozoa, or Intestinal worms, Contained in the Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum. 1-132, pls. 1, 2., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.21590 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Gila Baird & Girard, 1853. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269208 on 2025-09-17

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Gila Baird & Girard, 1853. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269208 on 2025-09-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-12-02 12:48:54Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description Baird, [W.]. (1853). Catalogue of the Species of Entozoa, or Intestinal worms, Contained in the Collection of the British Museum. London: British Museum. 1-132, pls. 1, 2., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.21590 [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Catalog of Fishes (from synonym Acrocheilus Agassiz, 1855)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acrocheilus) (from synonym Acrocheilus Agassiz, 1855)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Gila)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Acrocheilus Agassiz, 1855)
To ITIS