Our references include a variety of documents including checklists published by others.
Mammals
- USDA Checklist for the Black Range
- Mammalian Type Localities in New Mexico; Jennifer K. Frey; Occasional Papers of The Museum of Southwestern Biology; October 22, 1996
- A Study of Black Bear Ecology in New Mexico With Models For Population Dynamics and Habitat Suitability; Costello, Jones, Hammond. Inman & Inman, Thompson, Deitner, & Quigley; New Mexico Game and Fish; 2001
- Mammals of New Mexico; Vernon Bailey; USDA-Biological Survey; North American Fauna, No. 53; 1931
- Mule Deer in New Mexico; NMSU, Cooperative Extension Service; Bender and Allison
- Investigations of Big Game and Ranges - Historical Background of the Black Range - Robert Stewart - NM Dept. of Game and Fisih
- Proceedings of the 1997 Deer/Elk Workshop - WAFWA
Reptiles and Amphibians
- USDA Checklist for the Black Range
- Emory: United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; Reptiles of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird
- Amphibians and Reptiles of the Madrean Archipelago of Arizona and New Mexico, Robert L. Bezy and Charles J. Cole, American Museum Novitates, July 2014
Birds
- Native Names of Mexican Birds; Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Department of Interior; Resource Publication 139; Birkenstein and Tomilson
- Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard; Bureau of Biological Survey, 1913
- Reports Upon The Zoological Collections Obtained From Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona During The Years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874; Henshaw and Others
- “Notes derived from observations made on the Birds of New Mexico during the years 1853 and 1854”, published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; Vol. VII; April 1855 ; pp, 306-317; by T. Carlton Henry
- Recovery Plan for the Mexican Spotted Owl, 1995, U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Southwestern Region
- Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, First Revison, 2012, USFWS
- Birds of Conservation Concern -2021 - Migratory Bird Program, USFWS
- Turkey Vultures: A Photographic Guide for Aging Nestlings, Alberta Species at Risk Report No. 124, Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division, 2009.
Fish
- Emory: United States and Mexican Boundary Survey; Reptiles of the Boundary by Spencer F. Baird
- Descriptions of new species of Fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico, and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, USA; by F. S. Baird and Charles Girard; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1854-1855; Vol. 7, pp. 23-34
Insects
- The Bees of New Mexico; T. D. A. Cockerell; American Hymenoptera; October 1906
- Publications of Entomologists at New Mexico State University 1890 to 1978; NMSU Memoir Series Number 7
- Lists of Lepidoptera and Coleopter, collected in New Mexico by the Kansas University Scientific Expeditions of 1881 and 1882; Kansas Academy of Science; F. H. Snow
- Lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera Collected in New Mexico by the Kansas University Scientific Expeditions of 1883 and 1884; Kansas Academy of Science; F. H. Snow
- New Mexico Butterflies: Checklist, distribution and conservation; Steven Cary and Richard Holland
- A Checklist of the Butterflies of Grant County, New Mexico and Vicinity; Clifford D. Ferris, Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 38-49
- Webpage of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (Los Alamos Nature Center) - Butterflies
- A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western North American Populations of Hippodamia convergens (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Joshua S. McCord, Masters Thesis, University of Kentucky, 2015
- “Cladistic analysis of Hemirhipini with establishment of Propalaus gen. nov. (Coleoptera, Elateridae, agrypninae)”, Sônia A. Casari, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, Volume 48, 2008
- Field Guide to Western North American Fireflies
Arthropoda
- Revision of the Jumping Spiders of the Genus Phidippus, G. B. Edwards
- Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 within the United States, Hamilton, Hendrixson, and Bond
- The Spider Book, 1912, John Henry Comstock
- The Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 17 - The Wolf Spiders, Nurseryweb Spiders, and Lynx Spiders of Canada and Alaska, Agriculture Canada, 1990 - Don’t let the “range” confuse you, this publication has a great deal of information about spiders found in our area.
Mollusca
- Land Snails of New Mexico
- Mollusca of the Southwestern States, VIII: The Black Range, New Mexico
- A Shell Hunt in the Black Range