From Marilyn_Ostergren@nps.gov

This is the reference for the article where the following citations came from:

CBE Views Vol 16 No4, 1993 by Paul A. Opler Managing Editor US Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Information Transfer 1201 Oak Ridge Drive Suite 200 Fort Collins CO 80525.


Reference sources for species names (the article gave a summary of each source - unfortunately my copy of the article is in California and I'm in Washington, but hopefully this will help anywya):

Thirty-seventh Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds and 1989, Auk 106 532-538.

The Common Names of North American Butterflies; Butterflies Miller, Jacqueline Y. 1992, and Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC177 p.

Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians and Reptiles Third Edition and Collins, Joseph T. 1990 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Herpetological Circular 19 41 p. May be ordered from Douglas H. Taylor Department of Zoology Miami University Oxford OH 45056.

Revised Checklist of North american Mammals North of Mexico, 1991 Occasional Papers of the Museum Texas Tech University 146 23 p. and Jones, J. K. Jr R. S. Hoffmann D. W. Rice C. Jones R. F. Baker and MG Engstrom 1992. 

National List of Scientific Plant Names Volume 1: List of Plant Names ; US Soil Conservation Service 1982 , and US Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service SCS-TP-159 415 p. Scientific Names only.

National List of Plant Species that Occur in Wetlands: National Summary; Reed, Porter B. Jr 1988, and US Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Report 88(24) 244 p. (Scientific names only. Available from Publications Unit, US Fish and Wildlife Service Washington Dc 20240.

Manual of the Grasss of the United States; Hitchcock, A. S. and A. Chase 1951, and US Department of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publication 200 1051 p. Does not include common names for all species.

Mammals Species of the world: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference Second Edition, Smithsonian Institution Press Washington DC 1206 p. Scientific names only and Wilson, D. E. and D. M. Reeder editors 1993.

Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States John Wiley & Sons, New York 803 p.; Pennak, Robert W. 1979, and (Scientific names of families and other higher categories).  

Flora of North American north of Mexico; Flora of North American Editorial Committe eds 1993 , and 2 vols Oxford University Press, NY 14 volumes planned covering mosses and liverworts no common names and all vascular plants common names throught.

Endangered and Threatend Wildlife and Plants and US Fish and wildlife Service 1992 , 30 Code of Federal Regulations 17. 11 & 17. 12 38 p. Available from Publications Unit US Fish and Wildlife Service Washington DC 20240.

Common Names of Insects & Related Organisms and Werner, Floyd G. 1989 Entomological Society of America College Park MD 132 p. Address orders to Entomological Society of America 9301 Annapolis Road MD 2709.

Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada Fifth Edition (1991) American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 20 183 p. Address orders to American Fisheries Society 5410 Grosvenor Lane Suite 110 Bethesda MD 20814-2199. 

Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Decapod Crustaceans and Williams, A. B. I. G. Abele D. L. Felder H. H. Hobbs jr. R. B. Manning P. A. McLaughlin and I. Perez Farfante 1989 American Fisheries Society Special Publication 17 77 p. Address orders to American Fisheries Society 5410 Grosvenor Lane Suite 110 Bethesda MD 20814-1299.

Common and Scientifc Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks American Fisheries Society Special Publication 16 277 p.; Turgeon, Donna D. Arthur E. Bogan Eugene V. Coan William K. Emerson William G. Lyons William L. Pratt Clyde F. E. Rober Amelie Scheltema Fred G. Thompson and James D. williams 1988, and (Address orders to American Fisheries Society, 5410 Grosvenor Lane Suite 110 Bethesda Md 20814-2199.

Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U. S. Trust Territories and Canada; Banks, Richard C. Roy M. McDiarmid Alfred L. Gardner 1987, and US Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication 166, 79 p. Request from Publications Unit US Fish and Wildlife Service Washington DC 20240.

checklist of United States Trees (Native and Naturalized) ; Little, Elbert L. Jr 1979, and US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 341 375 p.

Catalogue of american Amphibians and Reptiles, 1-100 American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists New York NY and Reptiles and Amphibians American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Herpetological Catalogue Committee 1963-1970.

An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America and 1984. R.W. Merritt and K.W. Cumins, eds.

A Synomyzed Checklist of the Vascualr Flora of the United States, Canada and Greenland; Kartesz, J. T. and R. Kartesz 1980, and University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill NC 498 p.

A.O.U. Check list of North American Birds Sixth Edition American Ornithologists' Union 877 p.; American Ornithologists' Union Committee on Classification and Nomenclature 1983 , and (Supplements tot he check-list are published in the Auk) .

A Checklist of Names for 3, 000 Vascular Plants of Economic Importance; Terrell, Edward E. Steven R. Hill John H. Wiersema and William e. Rice 1986, and US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook 505 244 p.