Livros Didáticos
Baum, D.A. & S.D. Smith. 2013. An introduction to Phylogenetic Biology. Greenwood Village, Roberts and Company Publishers, 476p.
Richards, R.A. 2010. The species problem, a Philosophical Analysis. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 236p.
Stamos, D.N. 2003. The species problem, Biological species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology. Lexington Books, 379p.
Wiley, E.O. & B.S. Lieberman. 2011. Phylogenetics: theory and practice of Phylogenetic Systematics. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Wilkins, J.S. 2009. Defining species, a sourcebook from Antiquity to today. New York, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 224p.
Wilkins, J.S. 2009. Species, a history of the idea. Berkeley, University of california Press, 305p.
Wheeler, W.C. 2012. Systematics, a course of lectures. West Sussex, John Wiley & Sons, 426p.
Livros complementares
Eddregde, N. & J. Cracraft. 1980. Phylogenetics patterns and the evolutionary process. New York, Columbia University Press.
Kitching, I.J., P.L. Forey, C.J. Humphries & D.M. Williams. 1988. Cladistics, the theory and practice of parsimony analysis. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 228p. (2a ed.)
Mateus, A. 1989. Fundamentos de Zoologia Sistemática. Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 305p. (1ª ed.).
Mayr, E. 1976. Evolution and Diversity of Life, selected essay. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 721p.
Mayr, E. 2005. Biologia, Ciência Única. São Paulo, Cia das Letras, 266p.
Mayr, E. & P.D. Ashlock. 1991. Principles of Systematic Zoology. McGraw Hill Int. Ed.
Nelson, G. & N. Platinck. 1981. Systematics and Biogeography, Cladistics and vicariance. New York, Columbia University Press, 567p.
Papavero, N. (org.) 1994. Fundamentos Práticos de Taxonomia Zoológica. São Paulo, Editora UNESP. 285p. (2ª ed.).