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| Global diversity of fish (Pisces) in freshwater C Levêque, T Oberdorff, D PAUGy, MLJ Stiassny, PA Tedesco Freshwater animal diversity assessment, 545-567, 2008 | 761 | 2008 |
| So many fishes, so little time: an overview of recent ichthyological discovery in continental waters JG Lundberg, M Kottelat, GR Smith, MLJ Stiassny, AC Gill Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 26-62, 2000 | 392 | 2000 |
| Can we defy nature's end? SL Pimm, M Ayres, A Balmford, G Branch, K Brandon, T Brooks, ... Science 293 (5538), 2207-2208, 2001 | 385 | 2001 |
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| Freshwater ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: a conservation assessment ML Thieme, R Abell, MLJ Stiassny, P Skelton, B Lehner, GG Teugels, ... | 309 | 2005 |
| Phylogenetic interrelationship of the family Cichlidae: a overview. MLJ Stiassny (No Title), 1, 1991 | 309 | 1991 |
| Taxonomic impediment or impediment to taxonomy? A commentary on systematics and the cybertaxonomic-automation paradigm MR de Carvalho, FA Bockmann, DS Amorim, CRF Brandão, M de Vivo, ... Evolutionary Biology 34, 140-143, 2007 | 239 | 2007 |
| Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the tree of life D Arcila, G Ortí, R Vari, JW Armbruster, MLJ Stiassny, KD Ko, MH Sabaj, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (2), 0020, 2017 | 230 | 2017 |
| Labroid intrarelationships revisited: morphological complexity, key innovations, and the study of comparative diversity MLJ Stiassny, JS Jensen Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1987 | 200 | 1987 |
| Cichlids of the rift lakes MLJ Stiassny, A Meyer Scientific American 280 (2), 64-69, 1999 | 191 | 1999 |
| The quiet crisis: a preliminary listing of the freshwater fishes of the world that are extinct or “missing in action” IJ Harrison, MLJ Stiassny Extinctions in near time: causes, contexts, and consequences, 271-331, 1999 | 182 | 1999 |
| The limits and relationships of the acanthomorph teleosts MLJ Stiassny Journal of Zoology 1 (2), 411-460, 1986 | 159 | 1986 |
| An overview of freshwater biodiversity: with some lessons from African fishes MLJ Stiassny Fisheries 21 (9), 7-13, 1996 | 132 | 1996 |
| A review of the pelvic girdle of acanthomorph fishes, with comments on hypotheses of acanthomorph intrarelationships MLJ STIASSNY, JONA MOORE Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 104 (3), 209-242, 1992 | 132 | 1992 |
| Interrelationships of fishes MLJ Stiassny, LR Parenti, GD Johnson Academic Press, 1996 | 129 | 1996 |
| An overview of labeonin relationships and the phylogenetic placement of the Afro-Asian genus Garra Hamilton, 1922 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), with the description of five new … MLJ Stiassny, A Getahun Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150 (1), 41-83, 2007 | 128 | 2007 |
| Conserving Madagascar's freshwater biodiversity JP Benstead, PH De Rham, JL Gattolliat, FM Gibon, PV Loiselle, M Sartori, ... BioScience 53 (11), 1101-1111, 2003 | 122 | 2003 |
