A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes: North America North of Mexico
Lawrence M. Page and Brooks M. Burr
(Peterson Field Guide) Houghton Mifflin, 1991

Fishes of Alabama and the Mobile Basin
M. F. Mettee, Patrick E. O’Neil, and J. Malcolm Pierson
Oxmoor House, 1996

Fishes of Missouri
William L. Pflieger
Missouri Department of Conservation, rev. 1997

The Fishes of Tennessee
David A. Etnier and Wayne C. Starnes
University of Tennessee Press, 1993

Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and Adjacent Waters
H. Dickson Hoese and Richard H. Moore
Texas A&M University Press, 1998

Inland Fishes of Mississippi
Stephen T. Ross
University Press of Mississippi, 2001