| The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama DS Jordan, BW Evermann US Government Printing Office, 1898 | 1478* | 1898 |
| A classification of fishes DS Jordan Stanford University Press, 1923 | 358 | 1923 |
| 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 Govt. Print. Off., 1930 | 291 | 1930 |
| Synopsis of the fishes of North America DS Jordan, CH Gilbert US Government Printing Office, 1882 | 249 | 1882 |
| Record of fishes obtained by David Starr Jordan in Japan, 1922 DS Jordan Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 10, 93-346, 1925 | 227 | 1925 |
| 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 | 224 | 1906 |
| A catalogue of the fishes of Japan DS Jordan, S Tanaka, JO Snyder Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 33, 1-497, 1913 | 217 | 1913 |
| 1900. The fishes of north and middle America DS Jordan, BW Evermann Bull. US Nat. Mus 47 (1-4), 1-3313, 1896 | 212 | 1896 |
| The law of geminate species DS Jordan The American Naturalist 42 (494), 73-80, 1908 | 192 | 1908 |
| The origin of species through isolation DS Jordan Science 22 (566), 545-562, 1905 | 165 | 1905 |
| American food and game fishes DS Jordan, BW Evermann Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923 | 153 | 1923 |
| A guide to the study of fishes DS Jordan BoD–Books on Demand, 2018 | 146 | 2018 |
| 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 US Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, 1890 | 130 | 1890 |
| A check-list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America DS Jordan, BW Evermann US Government Printing Office, 1896 | 126 | 1896 |
| Relations of temperature to vertebrae among fishes DS Jordan Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1891 | 120 | 1891 |
| The days of a man: being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy DS Jordan World Book Company, 1922 | 116 | 1922 |
| A Catalogue of the Fishes Known to Inhabit the Waters of North America, North of the Tropic of Cancer: With Notes on the Species Discovered in 1883 and 1884 DS Jordan US Government Printing Office, 1885 | 107 | 1885 |
| Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 DS Jordan Mem. Carnegie Mus. 6, 205-313, 1914 | 105 | 1914 |
| The genera of fishes DS Jordan Stanford University Press, 1919 | 100 | 1919 |
| Notes on a collection of fishes from the island of Formosa DS Jordan, BW Evermann Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1902 | 94 | 1902 |
