| Frogfishes of the world: systematics, zoogeography, and behavioral ecology TW Pietsch, DB Grobecker | 204 | 1987 |
| Evolution of the salmonid mitochondrial control region AM Shedlock, JD Parker, DA Crispin, TW Pietsch, GC Burmer Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 1 (3), 179-192, 1992 | 175 | 1992 |
| Enhanced DNA extraction and PCR amplification of mitochondrial genes from formalin-fixed museum specimens AM Shedlock, MG Haygood, TW Pietsch, P Bentzen Biotechniques 22 (3), 394-400, 1997 | 161 | 1997 |
| Oceanic anglerfishes TW Pietsch Extraordinary diversity in the deep sea. Oceanic Anglerfishes, i-xii, 2009 | 142 | 2009 |
| Dimorphism, parasitism, and sex revisited: modes of reproduction among deep-sea ceratioid anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) TW Pietsch Ichthyological Research 52, 207-236, 2005 | 134 | 2005 |
| Trees of life: a visual history of evolution TW Pietsch JHU Press, 2012 | 111 | 2012 |
| Phylogenetic relationships of trachinoid fishes of the family Uranoscopidae TW Pietsch Copeia, 253-303, 1989 | 108 | 1989 |
| Evolutionary history of anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): a mitogenomic perspective M Miya, TW Pietsch, JW Orr, RJ Arnold, TP Satoh, AM Shedlock, HC Ho, ... BMC Evolutionary Biology 10, 1-27, 2010 | 107 | 2010 |
| Biodiversity and biogeography of the islands of the Kuril Archipelago TW Pietsch, VV Bogatov, K Amaoka, YN Zhuravlev, VY Barkalov, S Gage, ... Journal of Biogeography 30 (9), 1297-1310, 2003 | 106 | 2003 |
| Vailulu’u Seamount, Samoa: Life and death on an active submarine volcano H Staudigel, SR Hart, A Pile, BE Bailey, ET Baker, S Brooke, DP Connelly, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (17), 6448-6453, 2006 | 102 | 2006 |
| Osteology and relationships of ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Oneirodidae, with a review of the genus Oneirodes Lutken TW Pietsch Nat. Hist. Mus. LA Co., Sci. Bull. 18, 1-113, 1974 | 95 | 1974 |
| Evolutionary relationships of the sea moths (Teleostei: Pegasidae) with a classification of gasterosteiform families TW Pietsch Copeia, 517-529, 1978 | 90 | 1978 |
| A revision of the osmerid genus Hypomesus Gill (Teleostei: Salmoniformes), with the description of a new species from the southern Kuril Islands T Saruwatari, JA Lopez, TW Pietsch Species diversity 2 (1), 59-82, 1997 | 88 | 1997 |
| The compleat angler: aggressive mimicry in an antennariid anglerfish TW Pietsch, DB Grobecker Science 201 (4353), 369-370, 1978 | 88 | 1978 |
| High-speed cinematographic evidence for ultrafast feeding in antennariid anglerfishes DB Grobecker, TW Pietsch Science 205 (4411), 1161-1162, 1979 | 80 | 1979 |
| Dimorphism, parasitism and sex: reproductive strategies among deepsea ceratioid anglerfishes TW Pietsch Copeia, 781-793, 1976 | 77 | 1976 |
| Identification of the notothenioid sister lineage illuminates the biogeographic history of an Antarctic adaptive radiation TJ Near, A Dornburg, RC Harrington, C Oliveira, TW Pietsch, CE Thacker, ... BMC evolutionary biology 15, 1-14, 2015 | 70 | 2015 |
| Lophiiformes: development and relationships TW Pietsch Ontogeny and systematics of fishes, 320-325, 1984 | 70 | 1984 |
| The osteology and relationships of the anglerfish genus Tetrabrachium with comments on lophiiform classification. TW Pietsch Fishery Bulletin United States, National Marine Fisheries Service 79, 1981 | 69 | 1981 |
| The proper name for the geoduck: resurrection of Panopea generosa Gould, 1850, from the synonymy of Panopea abrupta (Conrad, 1849)(Bivalvia: Myoida: Hiatellidae) B Vadopalas, TW Pietsch, CS Friedman Malacologia 52 (1), 169-173, 2010 | 68 | 2010 |
