| The diversity of fishes G Helfman, B Collette, D Facey Massachusets, Backwell Science editorial officers, 528, 2000 | 2872* | 2000 |
| The impact of conservation on the status of the world’s vertebrates M Hoffmann, C Hilton-Taylor, A Angulo, M Böhm, TM Brooks, ... science 330 (6010), 1503-1509, 2010 | 1765 | 2010 |
| Scombrids of the world: an annotated and illustrated catalogue of tunas, mackerels, bonitos, and related species known to date. v. 2 BB Collette, CE Nauen | 1438* | 1983 |
| Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine BB Collette, G Klein-MacPhee Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002 | 644* | 2002 |
| FAO species catalogue. Vol. 2. Scombrids of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of tunas, mackerels, bonitos and related species known to date BB Collette, CE Nauen | 633 | 1983 |
| 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 | 471 | 2000 |
| FAO species catalogue LB Holthuis, BB Collette, CE Nauen Fao 1, 1-261, 1980 | 427 | 1980 |
| High value and long life—double jeopardy for tunas and billfishes BB Collette, KE Carpenter, BA Polidoro, MJ Juan-Jordá, A Boustany, ... Science 333 (6040), 291-292, 2011 | 359 | 2011 |
| Specimen collection: an essential tool LA Rocha, A Aleixo, G Allen, F Almeda, CC Baldwin, MVL Barclay, ... Science 344 (6186), 814-815, 2014 | 325 | 2014 |
| Breeding tubercles and contact organs in fishes: their occurrence, structure, and significance. Bulletin of the AMNH; v. 143, article 3 ML Wiley, BB Collette New York:[American Museum of Natural History], 1970 | 254 | 1970 |
| Activity patterns of coral reef fishes with emphasis on nocturnal-diurnal changeover BB Collette, FH Talbot Scientists-in-the-sea, 257, 1972 | 249 | 1972 |
| Fishes of the Sea of Japan and the adjacent areas of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Yellow Sea GU Lindberg CRC Press, 2020 | 234 | 2020 |
| Systematics of the tunas and mackerels (Scombridae) BB Collette, C Reeb, BA Block Fish physiology 19, 1-33, 2001 | 222 | 2001 |
| Correlations between ecology and morphology in anoline lizards from Havana, Cuba, and southern BB Collette Bull Mus Comp Zool 125, 135-162, 1961 | 220 | 1961 |
| On the identification, distribution, and biology of the dolphins, Coryphaena hippurus and C. equiselis RH Gibbs Jr, BB Collette Bulletin of Marine Science 9 (2), 117-152, 1959 | 219 | 1959 |
| Fishes of Bermuda: history, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys WF Smith-Vaniz, BB Collette, BE Luckhurst | 218 | 1999 |
| Morphology, systematics, and biology of the Spanish Mackerels (Scomberomorus, Scombridae). BB Collette Fishery Bulletin 82 (4), 545-692, 1984 | 207 | 1984 |
| Comparative anatomy and systematics of the tunas, genus Thunnus G RH Fish. Bull. US Fish. Wild Serv. 66, 65-130, 1967 | 193 | 1967 |
| Systematics and zoogeography of the fishes of the family Percidae BB Collette, P Bănărescu Journal of the Fisheries Board of Canada 34 (10), 1450-1463, 1977 | 170 | 1977 |
| SYSTEMATICS AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE BONITOS (SARDA) AND THEIR RELATIVES (SCOMBRIDAE, SARDINI) ¹ BB Collette, LN Chao Fishery Bulletin, 516, 1975 | 169 | 1975 |
