| A general account of the fauna and flora of mangrove swamps and forests in the Indo-West-Pacific region W MacNae Advances in marine biology 6, 73-270, 1969 | 1593 | 1969 |
| Mangroves in eastern and southern Australia. W Macnae | 253 | 1966 |
| A natural history of Inhaca Island, Moçambique W Macnae, M Kalk, BI Balinsky (No Title), 1958 | 193 | 1958 |
| The fauna and flora of sand flats at Inhaca Island, Moçambique W Macnae, M Kalk The Journal of Animal Ecology, 93-128, 1962 | 166 | 1962 |
| Mangrove swamps in south Africa W Macnae Journal of Ecology 51 (1), 1-25, 1963 | 165 | 1963 |
| Mangrove forests and fisheries W MacNae (No Title), 1974 | 150 | 1974 |
| The Ecology of the Mangrove Swamps at Inhaca Island, Moξ̧ambique W Macnae, M Kalk The Journal of Ecology, 19-34, 1962 | 145 | 1962 |
| Zonation within mangroves associated with estuaries in North Queensland W Macnae Estuaries 83, 432-441, 1967 | 106 | 1967 |
| The ecology of plants and animals in the intertidal regions of the Zwartkops Estuary, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa W Macnae The Journal of Ecology, 361-387, 1957 | 104 | 1957 |
| The ecology of South African estuaries KMF Scott, AD Harrison, W Macnae Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 33 (3), 283-331, 1951 | 63 | 1951 |
| On some eolidacean nudibranchiate molluscs from South Africa W Macnae Annals of the Natal Museum 13 (1), 1-50, 1954 | 57 | 1954 |
| On four sacoglossan molluscs new to South Africa W Macnae Annals of the Natal Museum 13, 51-64, 1954 | 44 | 1954 |
| The families Polyceridae and Goniodorididae (Mollusca, Nudibranchiata) in southern Africa W Macnae Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 35 (4), 341-372, 1958 | 42 | 1958 |
| A natural history of Inhaca Island W Macnae, M Kalk Mozambique. First Edition Witwatersrand University Press, Cape Town, 1958 | 37 | 1958 |
| Mangroves on Aldabra W Macnae Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological …, 1971 | 36 | 1971 |
| Tectibranch molluscs from southern Africa W Macnae Annals of the Natal Museum 15 (16), 183-199, 1962 | 27 | 1962 |
| Observations on the birds of Tristan da Cunha islands and Gough Island in February and early March 1948 GJ Broekhuysen, W Macnae | 26 | 1949 |
| Platyhelminths from the South African clawed toad, or platanna (Xenopus laevis) W Macnae, L Rock, M Makowski Journal of Helminthology 47 (2), 199-235, 1973 | 23 | 1973 |
| On four species of the genus Aplysia common in South Africa W MacNae | 20 | 1955 |
| The fauna and flora of the eastern coasts of southern Africa in relation to ocean currents W Macnae South African Journal of Science 58 (7), 208-212, 1962 | 19 | 1962 |
