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  List of References on Endangered, Threatened, and Recently Extinct Fishes
 
 

 

This section focuses on the specific vertebrate group, FISHES.

American Fisheries Society
1991 Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada. 5th edition. Special Publication 20. Committee on Names of Fishes, American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 183 pp. (Appendix 2, Exotic Fishes.)
1991 World Fishes Important to North Americans. Special Publication 21. Committee on Names of Fishes, American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 243 pp.(World coverage excluding U.S. and Canada.)
2000 Marine Fish Stocks at Risk of Extinction. November 2000 issue of Fisheries. (List of marine fish stocks and species vulnerable, threatened or endangered in North American waters.) See: http//www.fisheries.org
Campbell, R.R. (Editor)
1990 Rare and Endangered Fishes and Marine Mammals of Canada: COSEWIC Fish and Marine Mammal Subcommittee Status Reports: VI. Canadian Field-Naturalist, Vol.104, No. 1, pp. 1-6.
Deacon, J.E., G.C. Kobetich, J.D. Williams, S. Contreras-Balderas, et al
l979 Fishes of North America, Endangered, Threatened, or of Special Concern: l979. Fisheries, Vol. 4, No. 2, March-April l979, pp. 29-44. Reprint available from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Provides common and scientific names, status, nature of the threat, and historical distribution. Includes many photographs and an extensive bibliography.)
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Cont. Journal published monthly by Kluever Academic Publications, Spui Boulevard 50, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Each issue has a "Threatened Fishes of the World" page featuring one species; includes distribution, description, abundance, habitat, conservation status, actions, and recommendations.
Etnier, D.A. and W.C. Starnes

1993 The Fishes of Tennessee. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 681 pp. (Provides distributional status for a large percentage of the interior fish fauna for the Eastern United States.)

Fuller, P.L., L.G. Nico, and J.D. Williams

1999 Nonindigenous Fishes Introduced into Inland Waters of the United States. Special Publication No. 27. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 613 pp.(includes freshwater fishes, nonindigenous pests, and introduced fishes)

Gilbert, C.R. (Editor)
1992 Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida, Volume II Fishes. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 247 pp. (Updated version of 1978 publication describing status of 39 fish species in Florida.)
Guido, K.B., and J.H. Brown
1999 Invasion of North American drainages by alien fish species. Freshwater Biology, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 387-399.
Jenkins, R.E. and N.M. Burkhead
1994 Freshwater Fishes of Virginia. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 1079 pp. (Section on endangered fishes.)
Jewett, S.L.
2001 Coelacanthidae. Coelacanths. In: FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific.
Johnson, J.E.
1987 Protected Fishes of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. 42 pp.
Lee, D.S., C.R. Gilbert, C.H. Hocutt, et al
l980 Atlas of North American Freshwater Fishes. North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh. 854 pp.
Lelek, A.
1987 Threatened Fishes of Europe: Vol. 9 of The Freshwater Fishes of Europe. Edited by European Committee for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resource, Council of Europe. Aulag-Verlag, West Germany. 343 pp.
Manire, C. and S. Gruber
1990 Many Sharks May be Headed Toward Extinction. Conservation Biology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 10-14.
McAllister, D.E., B.J. Parker, and P.M. McKee
1985 Rare, Endangered, and Extinct Fishes in Canada. Syllogeus 54. National Museum of Natural Science, Ottawa, Ontario. 192 pp.
Menhinick, E.F. and A.L. Braswell (editors)
1997 Endangered, Threatened and Rare Fauna of North Carolina. Part IV. A Reevaluation of the Freshwater Fishes. Occasional Papers of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina Biological Survey, Number 11. 106 pp.
Miller, R.R., J.D. Williams, and J.E. Williams
1989 Extinctions of North American Fishes During the Past Century. Fisheries, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 22-38
Moyle, P.B., J.E. Williams, and E.D. Wikramanayake
1989 Fish Species of Special Concern of California. California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento. 222 pp.
Ono, R.D., J.D. Williams, and A. Wagner
1983 Vanishing Fishes of North America. Stone Wall Press, Inc., Washington, DC 257 pp.
Pister, E.P.
l974 Desert Fishes and Their Habitats. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Vol. l03, No. 3, pp. 53l-540.
Ross, S.W., F.C. Rohde, and D.G. Lindquist

1989 Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Fauna of North Carolina, Part II: A Re-evaluation of the Marine and Estuarine Fishes. North Carolina Biological Survey and North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh. 20 pp. (Obtain: N.C. State Mus. Nat. Sci., P.O. Box 27647, Raleigh, NC 27611.)

Skelton, P.H.
1987 South African Red Data Book, Fishes. Foundation for Research Development, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa. 199 pp.
Soltz, D.L. and R.J. Naiman 
1978 The Natural History of Native Fishes in the Death Valley System. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Co., Science Series 30. 76 pp.
Sublette, J.E., M.D. Hatch, and M. Sublette
1990 The Fishes of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 393 pp. (Includes many endangered species; appendicies listing native species now extinct and introduced species now extirpated.)
Sullivan K.R., et al (Editors)
1986 The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, Introduced Species. Fisheries, Vol. 11, No. 2, March/April 1986, pp.1-63. (Theme of the issue deals with reducing the risks from introductions of aquatic organisms.)
Wang Sung, (Chief Editor)
1998 China Red Data Book of Endangered Animals. Pisces. Pei-ching; Science Press.
Williams, J.D. and R.M. Nowak
1993 Vanishing Species in our Own Backyard: Extinct Fish and Wildlife of the United States and Canada. In L. Kaufmann and K. Mallory, editors, 2nd edition. The Last Extinction, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 115-130.
Williams, J.E., and D.B. Bowman, J.E. Brooks, A.A. Echelle, R.J.Edwards, D.A. Hendrickson, and J.J. Landye
1985 Endangered Aquatic Ecosystems in North American Deserts with a List of Vanishing Fishes of the Region. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-62. (Available from the California Dept. of Fish and Game, 407 West Line St. Bishop, CA. 93514)
Williams, J.E., J.E. Johnson, D.A Hendrickson, et al.
1989 Fishes of North America Endangered, Threatened, or of Special Concern. Fisheries, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp.2-21.
Woodling, J.
1985 Colorado's Little Fish. A Guide to the Minnows and other Lesser Known Fishes in the State of Colorado. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Department of Natural Resources, Denver, CO 90216. 77 pp. (Species accounts and photographs of several endangered species.)
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
1993 Checklist of Fish and Invertebrates Listed in the CITES Appendices. Revised 2nd edition of 1988 checklist compiled by P.C. Almada-Villela. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. 171 pp.
Computer file: World Wide Web: http://www.dinofish.com/
On the Coelacanth, "Fish out of Time"
 

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