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Family
Cyprinidae

Genus
Gila


Last updated on:
12-Jan-2013

Gila elegans Baird & Girard, 1853


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Original description as Gila elegans:

  • Baird, Spencer F. & C.F. Girard. 1853. "Descriptions of some new fishes from the River Zuni". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 6:368-369 (ffm00128)

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Conservation: Gila elegans is evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species as (EN) endangered (1996).