1) Ecology and conservation of freshwater fishes of North America, especially of cyprinid minnows and killifishes of the genus Fundulus and their close relatives.

2) Neuroecology of highland stream fishes, especially the scarlet shiner, Lythrurus fasciolaris and the telescope shiner, Notropis telescopus.

Holmes, B.; B.W. Stallsmith; L. Whitington; and L. Marino. (2008). “Reproductive Timing Of The Telescope Shiner, Notropis telescopus, In Alabama, USA.” Manuscript submitted to The American Midland Naturalist.

Stallsmith, B.W. (2008). “Distributional Status Of The Flame Chub, Hemitremia flammea, in Alabama, USA; A Species In Trouble”, Endangered Species Research (on review).

Bruce Stallsmith, Kevin Butler, Amy Woodall and Bob Muller. (2007). “Observations on the Reproductive Biology of Two Notropis Species.” Southeastern Naturalist 6: 693 - 704.

Sosa E., Howard R. E., Eguchi A., Stallsmith B., Bishop A. (2007) Sexual Dimorphic patterns of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in the CNS of Lythrurus fasciolaris (Scarlet Shiners) Society for Neuroscience 2007.

Stallsmith, Bruce (2003). Interim Report, Mussel Relocation Activities, Whitesburg Bridge, Highway 231, Tennessee River, Alabama. Submitted to Bruce Porter, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Daphne, AL. November 2003. 9 pages.

Stallsmith, B.W. (2004). The spotfin killifish, Fundulus luciae: a review of its abundance and distribution. American Currents, Spring 2004, pages 9 - 11.

Stallsmith, Bruce. (2001). “Where the Killifish Aren’t: A Pictorial Essay on How the Growth of Downtown Huntsville, Alabama, Destroyed the Habitat of the Now-Extinct White Topminnow, Fundulus albolineatus. American Currents, Vol. 27. No. 3, pp. 14 - 18.