Fishes of the World.Fourth Edition.ByJoseph S Nelson.Hoboken (New Jersey): John Wiley & Sons.$125.00. xix + 601 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐471‐25031‐7. 2006.

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Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (2007, background): “Taxonomic overview: Burgess (1989), Teugels (1996), Teugels (2003a), Nelson (2006).”
Morphology, Taxonomy, and Phylogeny of Triassic Pholidophorid Fishes (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) (2013, background): “Together, fish such as †Dorsetichthys bechei, gen. nov., and †Leptolepis coryphaenoides initiate the beginning of a successful lineage that would culminate in the spectacular crowngroup Teleostei represented by more than 27,000 living species today (Nelson, 2006).”
Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “These groups generally inhabit the North Pacific (Nelson, 2006) and are characterized by sparse fossil records restricted largely to the Neogene (Patterson, 1993b).”
Annotated checklist of the fishes of Madagascar, southwestern Indian Ocean, with 158 new records (2018, methodology): “Higher classification follows Nelson (2006), family classification follows Laan et al. (2014), updated according to Eschmeyer et al. (2017).”