Vaillant, L. 1894. Sur une collection de poissons recueillie en Basse-Californie et dans le Golfe par M. Léon Diguet. Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris (8) 6 (2): 69-75.

Vaillant, L. 1899. Note préliminaire sur les collections ichthyologiques recueillies par M. Geay en 1897 et 1898 dans la Guyane française et le contesté franco-brésilien. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 5 (4): 154-156. [later called Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle]

Vaillant, L. 1900. Contribution à l'étude de la faune ichthyologique de la Guyane française et du contesté franco-brésilien. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (4) 2: 123-135, plate 7 [Rivulus geayi (fig. 2)]

Valdes Cantu, N. E. and K. O. Winemiller. 1997. Structure and habitat associations of Devils River fish assemblages. The Southwestern Naturalist 42 (3): 265-278, 4 figs., 4 tables. [map]

Valdesalici, S and R. Wildekamp. 2005. A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the Luapula river basin, Zambia. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 9 (3): 89-96, 7 figs., table. [map, color photos]

Valdesalici, S. 2007. A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the coastal area of northeastern Mozambique. Zootaxa 1587: 61-68, 6 figs., table. [map]

Valdesalici, S. 2010. Nothobranchius boklundi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae ): a new annual killifish with two male color morphs from the Luangwa River basin, Zambia. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 16 (2): 51-60, 14 figs., table. [map, photo of type locality, color photos]

Valdesalici, S. and H. Hengstler. 2008. Nothobranchius krammeri n. sp. (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) a new annual killifish from the Meronvi River Basin, northeastern Mozambique. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 14 (4): 187-194, 7 figs., table. [map, color photos]

Valdesalici, S. and R. H. Wildekamp. 2004. A new species of the genus Nothobranchius Peters, 1868 from the Lufwa River basin, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (Pisces, Cyprinodontiformes, Aplocheilidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria” 96: 241-251, 4 figs., table. [Nothobranchius hassoni compared to N. brieni, N. malaissei, N. symoensi,and N. polli; color photos; map]

Valdesalici, S., M. Bellemans, K. Kardashev, and A. Kolubtsuv. 2009. Nothobranchius nubaensis (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) a new annual killifish from Sudan and Ethiopia. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 15 (3): 143-152, 10 figs, table. [map, color photos]

Valencia Myers, 1928.

Myers, G. S. 1928. Two new genera of fishes. Copeia 1928: 7-8.

Type species: Fundulus hispanicus Valenciennes, 1846, by original designation, originally monotypic.

Valencia Myers, 1928: Myers, 1931; Parenti, 1981; Villwock, 1982b; Lazara, 1988; Bianco & Miller, 1989; Costa, 1998f.

Valencia hispanica (Valenciennes, 1846).

Spanish Killifish; Samaruc & Samarugo (Spain)

Valenciennes, A. 1846. L'Hydrargyra d'Espagne (Hydrargyra Hispanica, nob.) pp. 214-215 In: G. L. Cuvier and A. Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Libraire de la Société Géologique de France, Paris. Volume 18. xix + 505 pp., plates 520-553.

Type locality: collected in the freshwaters of Catalonia, Spain.

Hydrargyra Hispanica Valenciennes, 1846 [genus misspelled]: Bonaparte, 1846; Machado, 1857; Bellotti, 1858 [as a synonym of Cyprinodon iberus]; Steindachner, 1866; Cisternas, 1877; Barras de Aragón, 1894.

Fundulus hispanicus (Valenciennes, 1846): Günther, 1866; Sauvage, 1880a,b; Garman, 1895; Fowler, 1916; Rachow, 1924a; Roule, 1925; Myers, 1928; Buen, 1930, 1935; Berg, 1932; Stephanidis, 1939.

Valencia hispanica (Valenciennes, 1846): Myers, 1928 [designation of type for Valencia]; Mayer, 1932; Lozano Rey, 1935, 1947; Pardo, 1942; Hoedeman & Bronner, 1951; Kosswig, 1953; Lozano Cabo, 1958; Özarslan, 1958 [osteology]; Villwock, 1960a, 1985 [map only]; Spillman, 1961; Vidal Celma, 1963; Ladiges & Vogt, 1965; Oliva, 1965; Foster, 1967a,b; Arredondo, 1969, 1972; Labhart, 1973a,b, 1976, 1980; Stephanidis, 1974 [in part, Spain]; Seegers, 1980d; Hernandez, 1981; Parenti, 1981; Villwock, Scholl, & Labhart, 1982; Sostoa, Sostoa, Lobon Cervia, et al., 1984; Das, 1985; van Kessel, Woeltjes, & van der Zee, 1985; Fernández-Delgado, Hernando, Herrera, & Bellido, 1986; Bianco, 1987; Drake, Arias, & Sarasquete, 1987; van der Zee, 1988; van der Zee & van Kessel, 1988; Woeltjes, 1988; Bianco & Miller, 1989; Delgado, Alonso, Camacho, et al., 1991; van der Zee & Vonk, 1991a,b; Groombridge, 1993; Planelles, 1993; Bernardi, Fernandez-Delgado, Gomez-Chiarri, & Powers, 1995; Pereira, 1995; Planelles & Risueño, 1995; Doadrio, Perdices, & Machordom, 1996; Elvira, 1996; Fernández-Pedrosa, Latorre, & González, 1996; Keith & Allardi, 1996 [extinct in France]; Perdices, Machordom, & Doadrio, 1996; Planelles & Reyna, 1996; Kottelat, 1997; Costa, 1998f; Harrison & Stiassny, 1999.

Valencia letourneuxi (Sauvage, 1880).

Sauvage, H. E. 1880b. Notes sur quelques poissons recueillis par M. Letourneux, en épire, à Corfu et dans le lac Maréotis. Bulletin de la Société Philomatique de Paris (7) 4 (4): 211-215. [description: pp. 214-215]

Type locality: a lagoon called Lemni on the Ionian island of Corfu.

Fundulus letourneuxi Sauvage, 1880b: Stephanidis, 1939; Bertin & Estève, 1950 [syntypes]; Oliva, 1965 [as a synonym of V. hispanica].

Valencia letourneuxi (Sauvage, 1880b): Steinitz, 1951a; Eggers, 1980; Labhart, 1980; Parenti, 1981; Villwock, Scholl, & Labhart, 1982 [status as a distinct species]; Das, 1985, 1994 [color photo]; van Kessel, Woeltjes, & van der Zee, 1985; Villwock, 1985 [map only]; van der Zee, 1988; van der Zee & van Kessel, 1988; Woeltjes, 1988; Bianco & Miller, 1989; Groombridge, 1993; Planelles & Risueño, 1995; Perdices, Machordom, & Doadrio, 1996; Planelles & Reyna, 1996; Kottelat, 1997.

Valencia hispanica [misidentification]: Stephanidis, 1939, 1974 [in part, Corfu and Albania]; Oliva, 1961, 1965.

Hemichromis letourneuxi [misidentification]: Stephanidis, 1974 [Corfu: Stephanidis has apparently made a transcription error. In Sauvage (1880b) there is a description of a Hemichromis letourneuxi from Egypt, not Corfu; the new species from Corfu Sauvage named Fundulus letourneuxi.]

Valencia hispanica letourneuxi (Sauvage, 1880b): Seegers, 1980d.

Valenciennes, A. 1821. Untitled note. pp. 155-165, figs. In: A. de Humboldt and A. Valenciennes, Recherches sur les poissons fluviatiles de l'Amerique equinoxiale. Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland. Recueil d'observations de zoologie et anatomie comparée. II. Zoologie: 145-216. F. Schoell, Paris, France. [See Lazara (1993) for a discussion of the dating and authorship of this work.]

Valenciennes, A. 1839. Ichthyologie: Rapport sur quelques poissons d'Amerique rapportés par M. Pentland. l'Institut (1) 7: 118.

Valenciennes, A. 1846. Histoire naturelle des poissons. vol. 18. xix + 505 pp., plates 520-553 In: G. L. Cuvier and A. Valenciennes, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Libraire de la Société Géologique de France, Paris. [Written after the death of Cuvier, volume 18 of this series was authored by Valenciennes alone: Bailey (R. M.), 1951b.]

Valenciennes, A. 1858. Note sur quelques poissons d'Algérie. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris) 46: 711-715.

Valentine, D. W. and R. R. Miller. 1969. Osmo-regulation in the California killifish, Fundulus parvipinnis. California Fish and Game 58: 20-25.

Valiela, I., J. E. Wright, J. M. Teal, and S. B. Volkmann. 1977. Growth production and energy transformation in the salt-marsh killifish Fundulus heteroclitus. Marine Biology 40 (2): 135-144, figs., tables.

van Bergeijk, W. A. and S. Alexander. 1962. Lateral line canal organs on the head of Fundulus heteroclitus. Journal of Morphology 110 (3): 333-346, 12 figs. [mostly sections in photos, 3 drawings with one giving a detailed arrangement of the lateral line canals of the head]

van der Horst, C. J. 1934. Two new fishes from Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum (Annale van die Transvaal Museum) 15 (3): 281-282, drawing.

van der Waal, B. C. W. 1980. Aspects of the fisheries of Lake Liambezi, Caprivi. Journal of the Limnological Society of southern Africa 6 (1): 19-31, 7 figs., 16 tables. [maps] [Caprivi = Caprivi Strip, a strip of land in northeastern Namibia that extends east between Botswana on the South and Angola and Zambia on the north to the Zambezi River.]

van der Waal, B. C. W. and P. H. Skelton. 1984. Check list of fishes of Caprivi. Madoqua 13 (4): 303-320, fig. [map], tables, color photos [habitats].

van der Zee, J. 1982. Fundulosoma thierryi Ahl, 1924– Aphyosemion or Nothobranchius? Killie Nieuws (Killi Fish Nederland) 12 (6): 111-113, 8 figs.

van der Zee, J. 1988. Notes on the "Old World" killifish Valencia lozanoi. Journal of the American Killifish Association 21 (1/2): 16-25, 2 figs., table, photos.

van der Zee, J. 1990. Notes on the distribution area of the genus Adamas. Journal of the American Killifish Association 23 (5/6): 71-75, fig., map, photo.

van der Zee, J. and R. Vonk. 1991a. Fischexpeditionen in den Mahgreb. Die Aquarien Terrarien Zeitschrift (DATZ) 44 (4): 255-257, 8 figs. [color photos, map]

van der Zee, J. and R. Vonk. 1991b. Fischexpeditionen in den Mahgreb. 2. Auf der Suche nach "Fundulus hispanicus." Die Aquarien Terrarien Zeitschrift (DATZ) 44 (10): 667-671, 7 figs. [color photos], 2 maps.

van der Zee, J. and R. Vonk. 1992. Fischexpeditionen in den Mahgreb. 3. Astatotilapia desfontainesi in Süd-Tunesien. Die Aquarien Terrarien Zeitschrift (DATZ) 45 (2): 124-127, 8 figs. [color photos]