| A checklist of the fishes of the South China Sea GR Alien, K Amaoka, WD Anderson Jr, DR Bellwood, EB Bohlke, ... The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 569-667, 2000 | 458 | 2000 |
| Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae JR Paxton, DF Hoese, GR Allen, JE Hanley Zoological catalogue of Australia 7, 1989 | 326* | 1989 |
| Myctophidae PA Hulley, JR Paxton Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean 1, 429-483, 1984 | 300 | 1984 |
| Conservation overview and action plan for Australian threatened and potentially threatened marine and estuarine fishes JJ Pogonoski, JR Paxton, DA Pollard Environment Australia, 2002 | 199 | 2002 |
| Osteology and relationships of the lanternfishes (family Myctophidae). JR Paxton Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angel. Cty.[Sci.] 13, 1-81, 1972 | 179 | 1972 |
| Encyclopedia of fishes. JR Paxton, WN Eschmeyer | 167 | 1998 |
| Fish otoliths: do sizes correlate with taxonomic group, habitat and/or luminescence? JR Paxton Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2000 | 140 | 2000 |
| Annotated checklist of the fishes of Lord Howe Island. GR Allen, H Df, R JE, R Bc, S WA II | 136 | 1976 |
| Zoological catalogue of Australia. Vol. 7. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. JR Paxton, DF Hoese, GR Allen, JE Hanley | 118 | 1989 |
| Deep-sea mystery solved: astonishing larval transformations and extreme sexual dimorphism unite three fish families GD Johnson, JR Paxton, TT Sutton, TP Satoh, T Sado, M Nishida, M Miya Biology Letters 5 (2), 235-239, 2009 | 114 | 2009 |
| A distributional analysis for the lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) of the San Pedro Basin, California JR Paxton Copeia, 422-440, 1967 | 97 | 1967 |
| Myctophidae: development HG Moser, EH Ahlstrom, JR Paxton Ontogeny and systematics of fishes 1, 218-239, 1984 | 95 | 1984 |
| Biological note on southern California lanternfishes (family Myctophidae) JR PAXTON Calif. Fish Game 53, 214-217, 1967 | 64 | 1967 |
| Eye-size variability in deep-sea lanternfishes (Myctophidae): an ecological and phylogenetic study. F de Busserolles, J Fitzpatrick, J Paxton, NJ Marshall, S Collin PLoS ONE 8 (3), 1-14, suppl., 2013 | 63 | 2013 |
| Nominal genera and species of lanternfishes (family Myctophidae). JR Paxton Contrib. Sci., Nat. Hist Los. Angel. Cty. 322, 1-28, 1979 | 59 | 1979 |
| Identification guide to the mesopelagic fishes of the central and south east Atlantic Ocean TT Sutton Rome (Italy) FAO, 2020 | 58 | 2020 |
| Myctophidae: relationships JR Paxton Ontogeny and systematics of fishes, 239-244, 1984 | 55 | 1984 |
| Zoological catalogue of Australia JR Paxton, DF Hoese, GR Allen, JE Hanley Pisces. Petromyzonidae to Carangidae. Aust Govern Publ Serv, Canberra, 1989 | 52 | 1989 |
| Species composition and checklist of the demersal ichthyofauna of the continental slope off Western Australia (20-35 S) A Williams, PR Last, MF Gomon, JR Paxton RECORDS-WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 18, 135-156, 1996 | 50 | 1996 |
| Review of the lanternfish genus Lampadena with a description of a new species BG Nafpaktitis, JR Paxton Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, 1968 | 47 | 1968 |
G. David JohnsonIchthyologist, Research Zoologist, NMNH Smithsonian InstitutionVerified email at si.edu
