| The Fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalog of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters on North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama DS Jordan, BW Evermann US Government Printing Office, 1963 | 1384* | 1963 |
| A classification of fishes: including families and genera as far as known DS Jordan Stanford University Press, 1923 | 464 | 1923 |
| The fishes of North and Middle America. DS Jordan US Nat. Mus. Bull.(Part 3) 47, 1937-2860, 1898 | 405 | 1898 |
| Check list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America north of the northern boundary of Venezuela and Columbia DS Jordan, BW Evermann, HW Clark US Government Printing Office, 1930 | 365 | 1930 |
| Synopsis of the fishes of North America DS Jordan, CH Gilbert US Government Printing Office, 1882 | 317 | 1882 |
| Record of fishes obtained in Japan, 1922 J DS Mem Carnegie Mus 10, 93-346, 1925 | 300 | 1925 |
| A catalogue of the fishes of Japan DS Jordan J. Coll. Sci. Tokyo Imp. Univ. 33 (1), 1-497, 1913 | 300 | 1913 |
| The fishes of Samoa: Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania DS Jordan, A Seale US Government Printing Office, 1906 | 292 | 1906 |
| 1900. The fishes of North and middle America DS Jordan, BW Evermann Bull. US Nat. Mus 47 (1-4), 1-3313, 1896 | 243 | 1896 |
| The Genera of Fishes...: From 1881 to 1920, thirty-nine years, with the accepted type of each DS Jordan The University, 1920 | 231* | 1920 |
| American food and game fishes: a popular account of all the species found in America north of the Equator DS Jordan, BW Evermann Doubleday, 1923 | 229 | 1923 |
| The law of geminate species DS Jordan The American Naturalist 42 (494), 73-80, 1908 | 201 | 1908 |
| The origin of species through isolation DS Jordan Science 22 (566), 545-562, 1905 | 200 | 1905 |
| A guide to the study of fishes DS Jordan BoD–Books on Demand, 2018 | 194 | 2018 |
| The days of a man: being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy DS Jordan World Book Company, 1922 | 162 | 1922 |
| Relations of temperature to vertebrae among fishes DS Jordan Science, 104-107, 1891 | 158 | 1891 |
| Report of explorations in Colorado and Utah during the summer of 1889: with an account of the fishes found in each of the river basins examined DS Jordan | 154 | 1889 |
| A check-list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America DS Jordan, BW Evermann US Government Printing Office, 1896 | 149* | 1896 |
| WET WEIGHT, DRY WEIGHT, AND CARBON: A CORRECTION I GINSBURG, EJ GUTHERZ, HD HOESE, RH MOORE, DS JORDAN, ... Fishery Bulletin 86 (4), 833, 1988 | 145 | 1988 |
| Record of fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 DS Jordan, WF Thompson Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 6 (4), 205-313, 1914 | 137 | 1914 |
