The following books are helpful in understanding location, behavior, and characteristics of most species of micro fish found in North America. Some of the resources listed are exhaustive accounts of fish species while others deal with a focused aquatic region.
Field Guides
- Fish Watching: An Outdoor Guide to Freshwater Fishes
- The Minnow Family: Chubs, Dace, Minnows, and Shiners
- Small Fry and Bait Fishes (UK)
Identification of North American Fish Species by Region
Greater
- Atlantic Coast Fishes, A Field Guide to: North America (Peterson Field Guides)
- Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition (Peterson Field Guides)
- Mexico, Freshwater Fishes of
- Gulf of Mexico, Fishes of the
- North American Freshwater Fishes, Atlas of
- Pacific Coast Fishes, A Field Guide to: North America (Peterson Field Guides)
Specific
- Alabama and the Mobile Basin, Fishes of
- California to Alaska, Coastal Fish Identification
- California, Inland Fishes of
- California and Western Mexico, Fishes of
- Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Freshwater Fishes of
- Columbia Basin, Fishes of the
- Great Lakes Region, Fishes of the
- Idaho, Fishes of
- Illinois, Fishes of
- Indiana, Fishes of
- Missouri, Fishes of
- Mississippi, Inland Fishes of
- Northeastern US, Freshwater Fishes of
- Oklahoma, Fishes of
- Ontario Freshwater Fishes, A Checklist of
- Pacific Northwest, Coastal Fishes of the
- Savannah River Basin, Fishes of the Middle
- South Carolina, Freshwater Fishes of
- Southwest, Inland Fishes of the Greater
- Texas, Freshwater Fishes of
- Washington, Inland Fishes of
Identification of Fish Species by Outside North America
