| Phylogenetic comparative analysis of electric communication signals in ghost knifefishes (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) CR Turner, M Derylo, CD de Santana, JA Alves-Gomes, GT Smith Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (23), 4104-4122, 2007 | 56 | 2007 |
| Electric fishes of the genus Sternarchorhynchus (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); phylogenetic and revisionary studies CD De Santana, RP Vari Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159 (1), 223-371, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Apteronotus milesi, new species of ghost knifefish (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) from the Cauca River, with a key to apteronotids from the Magdalena-Cauca basin, Colombia CD de Santana, JA Maldonado-Ocampo Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 16 (3), 223, 2005 | 26 | 2005 |
| Brown ghost electric fishes of the Apteronotus leptorhynchus species-group (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes); monophyly, major clades, and revision CD de Santana, RP Vari Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168 (3), 564-596, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| South American electric knifefishes of the genus Archolaemus (Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes): undetected diversity in a clade of rheophiles RP Vari, CD De Santana, WB Wosiacki Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165 (3), 670-699, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Phylogenetic interrelationships, taxonomy, and reductive evolution in the Neotropical electric fish genus Hypopygus (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Gymnotiformes) CD De Santana, WGR Crampton Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163 (4), 1096-1156, 2011 | 24 | 2011 |
| Apteronotus eschmeyeri, a new species of ghost knifefish from the Magdalena Basin, Colombia (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) IAM SEVERI, GN MENDES Zootaxa 410, 1-11, 2004 | 22 | 2004 |
| Apteronotus caudimaculosus n. sp.(Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), a sexually dimorphic black ghost knifefish from the Pantanal, Western Brazil, with a note on the monophyly of … CD de Santana Zootaxa 252 (1), 1-11, 2003 | 22 | 2003 |
| Revision of the deep-channel electric fish genus Sternarchogiton (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) CD de Santana, WGR Crampton Copeia 2007 (2), 387-402, 2007 | 19 | 2007 |
| A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical electric fish genus Brachyhypopomus (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Hypopomidae), with descriptions of 15 new species WGR Crampton, CD Santana, JC Waddell, NR Lovejoy Neotropical Ichthyology 14 (4), 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| The South American electric fish genus Platyurosternarchus (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) CD de Santana, RP Vari Copeia 2009 (2), 233-244, 2009 | 16 | 2009 |
| Checklist of Gymnotiformes (Osteichthyes: Ostariophysi) and catalogue of primary types CJ Ferraris Jr, CD de Santana, RP Vari Neotropical Ichthyology 15 (1), 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| A new species of sexually dimorphic electric knifefish from the Amazon Basin, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) CD de Santana, CC Fernandes Copeia 2012 (2), 283-292, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| The untold story of the caudal skeleton in the electric eel (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes: Electrophorus) CD de Santana, RP Vari, WB Wosiacki PloS one 8 (7), e68719, 2013 | 11 | 2013 |
| The South American Electric Glass Knifefish Genus Distocyclus (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae): Redefinition and Revision GM Dutra, CD de Santana, RP Vari, WB Wosiacki Copeia 2014 (2), 345-354, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| Sternarchorhynchus curumim (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), a new species of tube-snouted ghost electric knifefish from the lowland Amazon basin, Brazil CD DE SANTANA, WGR CRAMPTON Zootaxa 1166 (1), 57-68, 2006 | 10 | 2006 |
| Phylogenetic systematics, biogeography, and ecology of the electric fish genus Brachyhypopomus (Ostariophysi: Gymnotiformes) WGR Crampton, CD de Santana, JC Waddell, NR Lovejoy PloS one 11 (10), e0161680, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Apteronotus galvisi, a new species of electric ghost knifefish from the Rio Meta basin, Colombia (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) CD de Santana, JA Maldonado-Ocampo, WGR Crampton Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18 (2), 117, 2007 | 9 | 2007 |
| New rheophilic species of electric knifefish from the rapids and waterfalls of the lower Rio Xingu, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) CD de Santana, RP Vari Copeia 2010 (1), 160-164, 2010 | 8 | 2010 |
| Apteronotus magoi, a new species of ghost knifefish from the Orinoco basin Venezuela (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) CD de Santana, O Castillo, D Taphorn Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 17 (3), 275, 2006 | 8 | 2006 |