Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E9
Office Number: Z1006 Bio Sciences
Email address: joe.nelson@ualberta.ca
Fax number: (780) 492-9234
Phone number: (780) 492-4741 (with answering machine)

Academic Degrees

BSc (Hon): University of British Columbia (1960, BSc thesis supervisor Dr. C.C. Lindsey).
MSc: University of Alberta (1962, MSc thesis supervisor Dr. J.R. Nursall).
PhD: University of British Columbia (1965, PhD thesis supervisor Dr. C.C. Lindsey).

Curator of fishes

Research groups: Systematics and Evolution and Environmental Biology and Ecology

Member of Board of Governors American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 1997-2002.

Past ASIH Meetings

Chairman, AFS & ASIH Names of Fishes Committee. 1991-present.

Editorial Board, Fish and Fisheries (a new Blackwell Science journal). 2000-

Member, Fish and Mammal Subcommittee for COSEWIC

My Society memberships include: Canadian Society of Zoologists, Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists, Ottawa Field Naturalists, Federation of Alberta Naturalists, American Elasmobranch Society, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Fisheries Society, Association of Systematics Collections, Sigma Xi, Society of Systematic Biologists (formerly Zoology), Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Willi Hennig Society, European Ichthyological Union, The Ichthyological Society of Japan, and the Société Française d'Ichtyologie. Newsletter subscriptions include: The Compleat Mesoangler

Compiler, List of Past Meetings of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

Former Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, (1995-2000; Apr-Aug 2002)

Recent

Keith Jackson - Ph.D.
Travis Ripley - M.Sc. (Co-Supervisor)
Yazdan Keivany - Ph.D.
Mark Steinhilber - M.Sc.

Recent teaching has been in the areas of Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates, Natural History of Alberta Vertebrates, Ichthyology, Principles of Zoological Systematics, and Honors Research.

Current Research Interests

1. Systematics and classification of fishes
2. Taxonomic revision of the Trachinoidei and Psychrolutidae
3. Taxonomy of the sticklebacks Culaea and Pungitius
4. Pelvic skeleton presence/absence in brook sticklebacks
5. Taxonomy, biology, biogeography of Alberta fish

Awarded F. Z. S. (Calcutta) Honoris Causa, 25 May 1992.

Distinguished Service Award, American Fisheries Society, 2000.

The Robert H. Gibbs, Jr Memorial Award, 2002, for 'An outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology', American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 8 July (2002).

J. Dewey Soper Award, Alberta Society of Professional Biologists, 18 March 2003.

Alberta Centennial Medal, (via Dept. Sustainable Resource Development), 21 February 2006.

BSc. 1960. Variation in meristic characters of kokanee populations (Oncorhynchus nerka) in British Columbia with an appendix on their distribution throughout North America. B.Sc. Thesis, Dept. Zoology, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 64 p.

MSc. 1962. Effects on fishes of changes within the Kananaskis River System. M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. Zoology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. 107p.

PhD. 1965. Hybridization and isolating mechanisms in Catostomus commersonii and Catostomus macrocheilus (Pisces: Catostomidae). Ph.D. Thesis. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 100 p.

(* = articles in unrefereed journals)

1. Gordon, R.N., R.A. Crouter and J.S. Nelson. 1960. The fish facilities at the Whitehorse Rapids power development, Yukon Territory. Can. Fish. Cult. 27: 1-14.
2. Hickman, C.P., R.A. McNabb, J.S. Nelson, E.D. Van Breeman and D. Comfort. 1964. Effect of cold acclimation on electrolyte and distribution on rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnerii). Can. J. Zool. 42: 577-597.
3. Nelson, J.S. 1965. Effects of fish introductions and hydroelectric development on the fishes of the Kananaskis River System, Alberta. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 22(3): 721-753.
4. Nelson, J.S. 1966. Hybridization between two cyprinid fishes, Hybopsis plumbea and Rhinichthys cataractae, in Alberta. Can. J. Zool. 44(5): 963-968.
5. Nelson, J.S. 1968a. Hybridization and isolating mechanisms between Catostomus commersonii and C. macrocheilus (Pisces: Catostomidae). J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 25(1): 101-150.
6. Nelson, J.S. 1968b. Distribution and nomenclature of North American kokanee, Oncorhynchus nerka. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 25(2): 409-414.
7. Nelson, J.S. 1968c. Variation in gillraker number of North American kokanee, Oncorhynchus nerka. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 25(2): 415-420.
8. Nelson, J.S. 1968d. Deep-water ninespine sticklebacks, Pungitius pungitius in the mississippi drainage, Crooked Lake, Indiana. Copeia. 1968(2): 326-334.
9. Nelson, J.S. 1968e. Life history of the brook silverside, Labidesthes sicculus, in Crooked Lake, Indiana. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 97(3): 293-296.
10. Nelson, J.S. 1968f. Salinity tolerance of brook sticklebacks, Culaea inconstans, freshwater ninespine sticklebacks, Pungitius pungitius, and freshwater fourspine sticklebacks, Apeltes quadracus. Can. J. Zool. 46(4): 663-667.
11. Nelson, J.S. 1968g. Ecology of the southernmost sympatric population of the brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans, and the ninespine stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, in Crooked Lake, Indiana. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 77: 185-192.
12. Nelson, J.S. 1969. Geographic variation in the brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans, and notes on nomenclature and distribution. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 26(9): 2431-2447.
13. Paetz, M.J. and J.S. Nelson. 1970. The fishes of Alberta. The Queen's Printer, Edmonton. 282 pp.
14. Nelson, J.S. and F.M. Atton. 1971. Geographic and morphological variation in the presence and absence of the pelvic skeleton in the brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans (Kirtland), in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Can. J. Zool. 49(3): 343-352.
15. Nelson, J.S. 1971a. Comparison of the pectoral and pelvic skeleton and of some other bones and their phylogenetic implications in the Aulorhynchidae and Gasterosteidae (Pisces). J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 28(3): 427-442.
16. Nelson, J.S. 1971b. Absence of the pelvic complex in ninespine sticklebacks, Pungitius pungitius (Linnaeus), in Ireland and in Wood Buffalo National Park region, Canada, with notes on meristic variation. Copeia. 1971(4): 707-717.
17. Nelson, J.S. 1972. Book Review. The ecology of running waters by H.B.N. Hynes. Can. Field-Nat. 86(1): 108-109.
18. Nelson, J.S. and M.J. Paetz. 1972. Fishes of the Northeastern Wood Buffalo National Park region, Alberta and Northwest Territories. Can. Field-Nat. 86(2): 133-144.
19. Nelson, J.S. 1973a. Morphological difference between the teleosts Couesius plumbeus (lake chub) and Rhinichthys cataractae (longnose dace) and their hybrids from Alberta. J. Morph. 139(2): 227-237.
20. Nelson, J.S. 1973b. Occurrence of hybrids between longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus) and white sucker (C. commersoni) in Upper Kananaskis Reservoir, Alberta. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 30(4): 557-560.
21. Nelson, J.S. and M.J. Paetz. 1974. Evidence for underground movement of fishes in Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada, with notes on recent collections made in the park. Can. Field-Nat. 88(2): 157-162.
22. Nelson, J.S. 1974. Hybridization between Catostomus commersoni (white sucker) and Catostomus macrocheilus (largescale sucker) in Williston Reservoir, British Columbia, with notes on other fishes. Syesis. 7: 187-194.
23. Nelson, J.S. 1975. Records of a new form of the marine cottid fish Antipodocottus galatheae from the east coast of New Zealand. Rec. Nat. Mus. New Zealand. 1(4): 80-86.
24. Nelson, J.S. 1976. Fishes of the World. Wiley-Interscience, New York, 416 pp. [Reviews available.]
25. * Nelson, J.S. 1976. Sticklebacks in our ponds. Kinnikinick. 1(7): 114-116.
26. Nelson, J.S. 1977a. Evidence of a genetic basis for absence of the pelvic skeleton in brook sticklebacks, Culaea inconstans, and notes on the geographical distribution and origin of the loss. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 34(9): 1314-1420.
27. Nelson, J.S. 1977b. Fishes of the Southern Hemisphere genus Neophrynichthys (Scorpaeniformes:Cottoidei), with descriptions of two new species from New Zealand and Macquarie Island. J. Roy. Soc. New Zealand. 7(4): 485-511.
28. * Nelson, J.S. 1977c. The postglacial invasion of fishes into Alberta. Alberta Naturalist. 7(2): 129-139.
29. Nelson, J.S. 1978. Limnichthys polyactis, a new species of blennioid fish from New Zealand, with notes on the taxonomy and distribution of other Creediidae (including Limnichthyidae). New Zealand J. Zoology. 5(2): 351-364.
30. Nelson, J.S. 1978b. Bembrops morelandi, a new percophidid fish from New Zealand, with notes on other members of the genus. Records National Museum of New Zealand. 1: 237-241.
31. Nelson, J.S. 1978c. Book review. The biology of the sticklebacks by R.J. Wootton. Copeia. 1978(3): 552-554.
32. Nelson, J.S. 1979a. Some osteological differences between the blennioid fishes Limnichthys polyactis and L. rendahli, with comments on other species of Creediidae. New Zealand J. Zoology. 6: 273-277.
33. Nelson, J.S. 1979b. Revision of the fishes of the New Zealand genus Hemerocoetes (Perciformes: Percophididae), with descriptions of two new species. New Zealand J. Zoology. 6: 587-599.
34. * Nelson, J.S. 1979c. Relative numbers of vertebrate species in Alberta, Canada, and the world. Alberta Naturalist . 9(3): 145-152.
35. Nelson, J.S. 1980. Book review. Biology of fishes. Can. Field-Nat. 94(1): 99.
36. Nelson, J.S. 1980. Psychrolutes sio, a new psychrolutid fish (Scorpaeniformes) from the southeastern Pacific. Can. J. Zool. 58: 443-449.
37. Nelson, J.S. and I. Nakamura. 1980. Distribution, morphology, and taxonomy of the psychrolutid fish Cottunculus granulosus (Karrer) from the southwestern Atlantic. Can. J. Zool. 58: 982-990.
38. * Nelson, J.S. and M.J. Paetz. 1982. Endangered species/habitats - Alberta fish species. Alberta Naturalist. 12(2): 52-53.
39. Nelson, J.S. 1982a. Two new South Pacific fishes of the genus Ebinania and contributions to the sytematics of Psychrolutidae (Scorpaeniformes). Can. J. Zool. 60: 1470-1504.
40. Nelson, J.S. 1982b. Pteropsaron heemstrai and Osopsaron natalensis (Perciformes: Percophidae), new fish species from South Africa, with comments on Squamicreedia obtusa from Australia and on the classification of the subfamily Hemerocoetinae. Spec. Public. 25, J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. 11 pp.
41. Nelson, J.S. 1983a. Creedia alleni and Creedia partimsquamigera (Perciformes: Creediidae), two new marine fish species from Australia, with notes on other Australian creediids. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 96(1): 29-37.
42. Nelson, J.S. 1983b. The tropical fish fauna in Cave and Basin Hotsprings drainage, Banff National Park. Can. Field-Nat. 97(3): 255-261.
43. Heemstra, P.C. and J.S. Nelson. 1984. Percophidae. FAO species identification sheets. Fishing area 51. Vol. III. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. 2 pp.
44. Nelson, J.S. 1984. Fishes of the world. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 2nd edition. 523 pp. [Reviews available.]
45. Nelson, J.S. 1985a. On the relationship of the New Zealand marine fish Antipodocottus galatheae with the Japanese Stlengis misakia (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae). New Zealand Oceanogr. Inst. Rec. 5(1): 1-12.
46. * Nelson, J.S. 1985b. Fish (638-639); Fish classification (639); Stickleback (1760-1761); Sucker (1768). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton.
47. * Nelson, J.S. 1985c. Fish (638-639); Fish classification (639); Stickleback (1760-1761); Sucker (1768). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton.
48. * Nelson, J.S. 1985d. Fish (638-639); Fish classification (639); Stickleback (1760-1761); Sucker (1768). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton.
49. * Nelson, J.S. 1985e. Fish (638-639); Fish classification (639); Stickleback (1760-1761); Sucker (1768). In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton.
50. Nelson, J.S. 1985f. On the interrelationships of the genera of Creediidae (Perciformes: Trachinoidei). Japan. J. Ichthyol. 32(3): 283-293.
51. Nelson, J.S., N. Chirichigno, and F. Balbontin. 1985. New material of Psychrolutes sio (Scorpaeniformes, Psychrolutidae) from the eastern Pacific of South America, and comments on the taxonomy of Psychrolutes inermis and Psychrolutes macrocephalus from the eastern Atlantic of Africa. Can. J. Zool. 63: 444-451.
52. Nelson, J.S. and J.E. Randall. 1985. Crystallodytes pauciradiatus (Perciformes), a new creediid fish species from Easter Island. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 98(2): 403-410.
53. Reimchen, T.E., E.M. Stinson and J.S. Nelson. 1985. Multivariate differentiation of parapatric and allopatric populations of threespine stickleback in the Sangan River watershed, Queen Charlotte Islands. Can. J. Zool. 63: 2944-2951.
54. Fedorov, V.V. and J.S. Nelson. 1986. Psychrolutidae. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese [eds.]. Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Vol. III. UNESCO, Paris. pp. 1261-1264.
55. Heemstra, P.C. and J.S. Nelson. 1986. Family No. 233: Percophidae. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra [eds.]. Smiths' Sea Fishes. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg. pp. 737-739.
56. Nelson, J.S. 1986a. Family No. 232: Creediidae. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra [eds.]. Smiths' Sea Fishes. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg. pp. 736-737.
57. Nelson, J.S. 1986b. Family No. 160: Psychrolutidae. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra [eds.]. Smith's Sea Fishes, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg. pp. 491-492.
58. Nelson, J.S. 1986c. Some characters of Trichonotidae, with emphasis to those distinguishing it from Creediidae (Perciformes: Trachinoidei). Japan. J. Ichthyol. 33(1): 1-6.
59. Nelson, J.S. 1987. The next twenty-five years: vertebrate systematics. Can. J. Zool. 65(4): 779-785.
60. Nelson, J.S. and M.A. Harris. 1987. Morphological characteristics of an introduced threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, from Hasse Lake, Alberta: a first occurrence in the interior plains of North America. Env. Biol. Fishes. 18(3): 173-181.
61. Reimchen, T.E. and J.S. Nelson. 1987. Habitat and morphological correlates to vertebral number as shown in a teleost, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Copeia. 1987(4): 868-874.
62. Das, M.K. and J.S. Nelson. 1988. Hybridization between northern redbelly dace (Phoxinus eos) and finescale dace (Phoxinus neogaeus) (Osteichthyes: Cyprinidae) in Alberta. Can. J. Zool. 67: 579-584.
63. Nelson, J.S. 1989. Cottunculus nudus, a new psychrolutid fish from New Zealand (Scorpaeniformes: Cottoidei). Copeia. 1989(2): 401-408.
64. * Nelson, J. S. 1990. Atlantic fishes of Canada: a review. Bull. Can Soc. Zool. 21(3): 36-37.
65. Nelson, J. S. 1990. Redescription of Antipodocottus elegans (Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae) from Australia, with comments on the genus. Copeia. 1990(3): 840-846.
66. Nelson, J. S. 1990. Indo-Pacific fish conference. Copeia. 1990(3): 906-907.
67. Nelson, J. S. 1990. Psychrolutidae. In J.C. QuÚro, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post, and L. Saldanha (Eds). Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic. Vol. II. Clofeta. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. pp 687-688.
68. Das, M.K. and J.S. Nelson. 1990. Spawning time and fecundity of northern redbelly dace, Phoxinus eos, finescale dace, Phoxinus neogaeus, and their hybrids in Upper Pierre Grey Lake, Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 104(3): 409-413.
69. Nelson, J.S. 1991. Book Review. The Eurasian Huchen, Hucho hucho, largest salmon of the world. Copeia. 1991(2): 537-538.
70. Winfield, I.J. and J.S. Nelson (Eds.). 1991. Cyprinid fishes; systematics, biology and exploitation. Chapman and Hall Ltd., London. 667 pp.
71. Nelson, J. S. 1991. Book Review. Catalog of the genera of recent fishes. Copeia. 1991(4): 1156-1158.
72. * Nelson, J. S. 1991. Comments on the need for stability in fish family-group names. Bulletin Zoological Nomenclature 48(2): 147-148.
73. * Nelson, J. S. 1991. Comments on Balitoridae. Bulletin Zoological Nomenclature 48(4): 335.
74. Nelson, J. S. 1991. Forward in book: Jamieson, B. G. M. 1991. Fish evolution and taxonomy: evidence from spermatozoa. Cambridge University Press, vii-viii.
75. * Nelson, J. S. 1991. The systematics of Cottunculus and Neophrynichthys (Psychrolutidae). Bulletin of Zoûlogisch Museum, Special Issue 1991: 55 (Abstract).
76. Nelson, J. S. 1992. Book Review. A field guide to freshwater fishes: North America North of Mexico. Reviews in fish biology and fisheries 2(3): 279-280.
77. Nelson, J. S. and M. J. Paetz. 1992. The fishes of Alberta. The University of Alberta Press, Edmonton; The University of Calgary Press, Calgary. 437 pp.
78. Nelson, J. S. 1993. Analysis of the multiple occurrence of pelvic fin absence in extant fishes. Matsya 15/16 (for 1989/90): 21-38.
79. Nelson, J. S. 1994. Fishes of the world. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York. 3rd edition. 600 pp.
80. Nelson, J. S. 1994. Fishes of the world (Chinese translation of 2nd edition). The Sueichan Press, Taiwan. 614 pp.
81. Nelson, J. S. 1994. Book Review. A history and atlas of the fishes of the Antarctic Ocean. Global Biodiversity 3: 40-41.
82. Nelson, J. S. 1994. Forword in book: F.H. Wooding. 1994. Lake, river, and sea-run fishes of Canada.
83. Brewin, M.K., L.L. Stebbins, and J.S. Nelson. 1995. Differential losses of floy anchor tags between male and female brown trout. N. Am. J. Fish. Manage. 15: 881-884.
84. Nelson, J.S. 1995. Book Review. Biology of fishes. Rev. Fish Biol. Fish. 5(4): 464-465.
85. Nelson, J.S. 1995. Psychrolutes microporos, a new species of cottoid (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes) from New Zealand and Japan with biogeographical comments. Proc. Zool. Soc., Calcutta 48(2): 67-76.
86. Das, M.K. and J.S. Nelson. 1996. Revision of the percophid genus Bembrops (Actinopterygii: Perciformes). Bull. Mar. Sci. 59(1): 9-44.
87. Nelson, J.S. 1997. Book Review. Interrelationships of fishes. Copeia 1997(3): 647-649.
88. Keivany, Y., J.S. Nelson, and P.S. Economidis. 1997. Validity of Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis 1971 (Teleostei, Gasterosteidae), a stickleback fish from Greece. Copeia 1997(3): 558-564.
89. *Nelson, J.S. 1997. Book Review. Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes. Can. Book Rev. Ann. (CBRA): 1008.
90. Keivany, Y. and J.S. Nelson. 1998. Comparative osteology of the Greek ninespine stickleback, Pungitius pungitius (Teleostei, Gasterosteidae). Vaprosy Ikhiologii 38(4): 458-468 and Journal of Ichthyology (English Translation) 38(6):430-440.
91. *Nelson, J.S. and B. Shelast. 1998. Pygmy whitefish in the Athabasca River near Whitecourt, Alberta. Alberta Naturalist 28(3): 59-60.
92. Jackson, K.L. and J.S. Nelson. 1998. Ambophthalmos, a new genus for “Neophrynichthys” angustus and “Neophrynichthys” magnicirrus, and the systematic interrelationships of the fathead sculpins (Cottoidei, Psychrolutidae). Can. J. Zool. 76(7): 1344-1357.
93. *Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 1998. Recommended changes in common fish names: pikeminnow to replace squawfish (Ptychocheilus spp.). Fisheries 23(9): 37.
94. Jackson, K.L. and J.S. Nelson. 1999. Ambophthalmos eurystigmatephoros, a new species of fathead sculpin (Scorpaeniformes; Psychrolutidae) from New Zealand. Copeia. 1999(2): 428-433.
95. Keivany, Y., C.K. Daoulas, J.S. Nelson, and P.S. Economidis. 1999. Threatened fishes of the world: Pungitius hellenicus Stephanidis, 1971 (Gasterosteidae). Env. Biol. Fishes. 55: 390.
96. Nelson, J.S. 1999. Editorial and introduction: the species concept in fish biology. In J.S. Nelson and P.J.B. Hart (eds.). The species concept in fish biology. Rev. Fish Biol. Fisheries 9(4): 277-280.
97. Nelson, J.S. and P.J.B. Hart (Eds.). 1999. The species concept in fish biology. Rev. Fish Biol. Fisheries 9(4): 277-382.
98. Nelson, J.S. and K.E. Carpenter. 1999. Cottidae, sculpins. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.). FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes, the living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Vol. 4, part 2:2425-2426. FAO, Rome.
99. Nelson, J.S. 1999. Psychrolutidae, fathead sculpins. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.). FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes, the living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Vol. 4, part 2:2427-2428. FAO, Rome.
100. Nelson, J.S. 2000. Trichonotidae, and Creediidae, Percophidae. In J.E. Randall and K.K.P. Lim (eds). A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea, in P.K.L. Ng and K.S. Tan (eds). The biodiversity of the South China Sea. Raffles Bull. Zool., Suppl. 8:631.
101. Keivany, Y. and J.S. Nelson. 2000. Taxonomic review of the genus Pungitius, ninespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae). Cybium 24(2):107-122.
102. Jackson, K.L. and J.S. Nelson. 2000. Neophrynichthys heterospilos, a new species of fathead sculpin (Scorpaeniformes: Psychrolutidae) from New Zealand. N.Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 34(4): 719-726.
103. *Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 2001. Recommended change in the common name for a marine fish: goliath grouper to replace jewfish (Epinephelus itajara). Fisheries 26(5): 31.
104. *Gilbert, C.R., J.S. Nelson, E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, , R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 2000. Ceratichthys micropogon Cope, 1865 (currently Nocomis micropogon; Osteichthyes, Cypriniformes): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by the designation of a neotype. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 57(4):214-217.
105. *Gilbert, C.R., J.S. Nelson, E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, , R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 2000. Holacanthus ciliaris bermudensis Goode, 1876 (currently Holacanthus bermudensis; Osteichthyes, Perciformes): proposed conservation of usage of the subspecific name by the designation of a neotype. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 57(4):218-222.
106. J.S. Nelson. 2001. FAO species identification sheets. Trichonotidae, Sanddivers. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.). FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes, the living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Vol. 6, part 4:3511-3512. FAO, Rome.
107. J.S. Nelson. 2001. FAO species identification sheets. Creediidae, Sandburrowers. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.). FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes, the living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Vol. 6, part 4:3513-3514. FAO, Rome.
108. J.S. Nelson. 2001. FAO species identification sheets. Percophidae, Duckbills. In K.E. Carpenter and V.H. Niem (eds.). FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes, the living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Vol. 6, part 4:3515-3516. FAO, Rome.
109. *Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 2002. When is a catfish not a catfish-U. S. legislation over a name. Fisheries 27(2):38-40.
110. *Nelson, J.S., W. C. Starnes, and M.L. Warren. 2002. A Capital case for common names of species of fishes-a white crappie or a White Crappie. Fisheries 27(7):31-33.
111. M. Steinhilber, J.S. Nelson, and J.D. Reist. 2002. A morphological and genetic re-examination of sympatric shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus) and lake cisco (C. artedi) in Barrow Lake, Alberta, Canada. VII International symposium on the biology and management of coregonid fishes. Arch. Hydrobiol. Spec. Issues Advanc. Limnol. 57: 463-478.
112. *Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 2003. The "Names of Fishes" list, including recommended changes in fish names: Chinook salmon for chinook salmon, and Sander to replace Stizostedion for the sauger and walleye.. Fisheries 28(7):38-39.
113. *Nelson, J. S. 2003. Forward to book: A. Joynt and M. G. Sullivan, 2003. Fish of Alberta. Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton. 176 pp.
114. *Nelson, J.S. 2004. Forward for Pauly, D. 2004. Darwin’s fishes, an encyclopedia of ichthyology, ecology and evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 340 pp.
115. Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, and J.D. Williams. 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 6th ed., American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland. 386 pp.
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116. Keivany, Y. and J. S. Nelson. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae),with emphasis on ninespine sticklebacks (Pungitius spp.). Behaviour 141(11/12): 1485-1497.
117. Nelson, J. S. 2006. Fishes of the world. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York. 4th edition. 601 pp.
118. *Nelson, J.S., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, N.E. Mandrak, and J.D. Williams. 2006. Corrections to Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, sixth edition. Fisheries 31(3):138-140.
119. Jackson, K.L. and J.S. Nelson. 2006. Ebinania australiae, a new species of fathead sculpin from southern Australia (Scorpaeniformes: Psychrolutidae). Records Australian Museum 58:37-42.
120. *Nelson, J.S., H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea, N.E. Mandrak, and J.D. Williams. 2006. Corrections to ‘Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico'. Copeia 2006(3) in press.

Ongoing research.

I am Professor Emeritus and I maintain an office (Z 1006) in the Biological Sciences Bldg. for my research. In addition to working on various taxonomic problems, I am heavily involved in three long-term projects as follows. 1). I chair an International Committee on North American Fish Names (the 6 th edition was published by the American Fisheries Society in 2004 and the next edition will be for 2010). 2). I am doing fish specimen research and literature synthesis to continue with revisions of my “Fishes of the World”—note above, the 4 th edition is out. 3). I hope to revise The Fishes of Alberta.