Original description:
- 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)
Type species: Gila conspersa Garman, 1881 (subsequent designation).
Described species included (23):
valid: 12 synonym: 11- Gila elegans Baird & Girard, 1853 (valid)
- Gila emoryi Baird & Girard, 1853 (synonym)
- Gila robusta Baird & Girard, 1853 (valid)
- Gila gracilis Baird & Girard, 1853 (synonym)
- Gila grahamii Baird & Girard, 1853 (synonym)
- Gila gibbosa Baird & Girard, 1854 (synonym)
- Gila pulchella Baird & Girard, 1854 (synonym)
- Tigoma intermedia Girard, 1856 (valid)
- Tigoma nigrescens Girard, 1856 (valid)
- Tigoma pulchra Girard, 1856 (valid)
- Tigoma purpurea Girard, 1856 (valid)
- Tigoma purpurea Girard, 1856 (valid)
- Ptychocheilus vorax Girard, 1856 (synonym)
- Gila affinis Abbott, 1860 (synonym)
- Leuciscus zunnensis Günther, 1868 (synonym)
- Gila nacrea Cope, 1871 (synonym)
- Gila conspersa Garman, 1881 (valid)
- Cheonda modesta Garman, 1881 (valid)
- Squalius lemmoni Smith, 1884 (synonym)
- Gila minacae Meek, 1902 (valid)
- Gila ditaenia Miller, 1945 (valid)
- Gila jordani Tanner, 1950 (synonym)
- Gila eremica DeMarais, 1991 (valid)