2008
Skelton, P.H. 2008. Amphiliidae. In M.L. Stiassny, G.G. Teugels & CL Hopkins (eds). The Fresh and Brackish Water Fishes of Lower Guinea, West-Central Africa. RMCA (Tervuren), IRD (Paris), Museum d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), & AMNH, New York.
Tweddle, D & P.H. Skelton. 2008. New species of ‘Barbus’ and Labeobarbus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the South Rukuru River, Malawi, Africa. Smithiana Bulletin 8: 25-39
2007
Impson, N.D., M.S. Marriott, I.R.Bills and P.H. Skelton. 2007. Conservation biology and management of a critically endangered cyprinid, the Twee River Redfin, Barbus erubescens (Teleostei:Cyprinidae), of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science 32 (1): 27-33.
Kramer, B., P.H. Skelton, H van der Bank, & M Wink. (2007). Allopatric differentiation in the Marcusenius macrolepidotus species complex in Southern and eastern Africa: the resurrection of M. pongolensis and M. angolensis, and the description of two new species (Mormyridae, Teleostei). Journal of Natural History, 2007; 41(9-12): 647-708.
Naran, D., P.H. Skelton & M.H. Villet. 2007. Karyology of three evolutionarily hexaploid southern African species of yellowfish, Labeobarbus Rüppel, 1836 (Cyprinidae). African Zoology 42 (2): 254-260.
Scott, L.E.P., Skelton, P.H., Booth, A.J., Verheust, L., Dooley, J., & Harris, R. 2007. An Atlas of Southern African freshwater fishes. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology – Special Issue (2007): 181-186.
Skelton, P.H. 2007. New species of the amphiliid catfish genera Amphilius, Doumea and Phractura and the taxonomy of Paramphilius from West Central Africa (Siluriformes, Amphiliidae). Zootaxa 1578:41-68.
Swartz, E.R., Skelton, P.H. & Bloomer, P. 2007. Sea level changes, river capture and the evolution of the Eastern Cape redfin (Pseudobarbus afer, Cyprinidae) across multiple river systems along the southern coast of South Africa. Journal of Biogeography 34, 2086-2099.
2006
Naran, D., Skelton, P.H. & M.H.Villet. 2006. Karyology of the redfin minnows, genus Pseudobarbus Smith, 1841 (Teleostei, Cyprinidae): one of the evolutionary tetraploid lineages of South African barbines. African Zoology 41 (2): 178-182
Scott, L.E.P., Skelton, P.H., Booth, A., Verheust, L., Dooley, J. & Harris, R. 2006. Atlas of Southern African Freshwater Fishes. Smithiana Monographs, 2, 303 pp.
2005
Russell, I.A., & Skelton, P.H. 2005. Freshwater fishes of the Golden Gate Highlands National Park. Koedoe 48(1), 87-94.
Others
Skelton, P.H. and J.R.E. Lutjeharms (Editors) 1996. The J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology - 50 years. The JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology (by the Royal Society of South Africa). Cape Town. 320pp.
Skelton, P.H. 2001. A complete guide to the freshwater fishes of southern Africa. Revised 2nd edition. Struik Publishers, Cape Town. 395pp. reprinted 2004; 2007.
Skelton P.H. and Teugels, G.G. (editors) 2001. African fish and Fisheries – diversity and Utilization. Annales du Musee Royal de l’Áfrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgique. 288, 1-105.
Thieme M.L., R. Abell, M.L.Stiassny, P.H. Skelton, B.Lehner, G.G. Teugels, E.Dierstein, A.K. Toham, N.Burgess, & D Olson. (Editors) 2005. Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar, A Conservation Assessment. Island Press, Washington DC, USA