Bonytail chub
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- Work cat.: Larval razorback sucker and bonytail survival and growth in the presence of nonnative fish in the Stipprup [i.e. Stirrup] floodplain, 2004:p. vii (bonytail; Gila elegans)
- ITIS, Nov. 21, 2005(Gila elegans; Vernacular names: bonytail, bonytail chub; Genus: Gila--western chubs; Species: Gila elegans--bonytail, bonytail chub)
- NCBI, Nov. 21, 2005(Gila elegans; Genbank common name: bonytail; Genus: Gila)
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service WWW site, Apr. 1, 2005(Chub, bonytail; Gila elegans)
- Web. 3 (bonytail or bonytail chub)
The bonytail chub or bonytail (Gila elegans) is a cyprinid freshwater fish native to the Colorado River basin of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming in the southwestern United States; it has been extirpated from the part of the basin in Mexico. It was once abundant and widespread in the basin, its numbers and range have declined to the point where it has been listed as endangered since 1980 (ESA) and 1986 (IUCN), a fate shared by the other large Colorado basin endemic fish species like the Colorado pikeminnow, humpback chub, and razorback sucker. It is now the rarest of the endemic big-river fishes of the Colorado River. There are 20 species in the genus Gila, seven of which are found in Arizona.
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