| The grapsoid crabs of America MJ Rathbun US Government Printing Office, 1917 | 712 | 1917 |
| The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae, and Xanthidae MJ Rathbun Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 1930 | 701 | 1930 |
| The spider crabs of America MJ Rathbun US Government Printing Office, 1925 | 496 | 1925 |
| The Brachyura and Macrura of the Hawaiian islands MJ Rathbun US Government Printing Office, 1906 | 458 | 1906 |
| Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain MJ Rathbun Geological Society of America, 1935 | 435 | 1935 |
| Les crabes d'eau douce MJ Rathbun Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 6, 225-312, 1904 | 393 | 1904 |
| The oxystomatous and allied crabs of America MJ Rathbun Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 1937 | 316 | 1937 |
| The Brachyura and Macrura of Porto Rico MJ Rathbun US Government Printing Office, 1901 | 312 | 1901 |
| The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America MJ Rathbun Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 1926 | 280 | 1926 |
| The genus Callinectes MJ Rathbun | 249 | 1896 |
| Decapod crustaceans of the northwest coast of North America MJ Rathbun Doubleday, Page, 1904 | 226 | 1904 |
| No. XI.—MARINE BRACHYURA. MJ Rathbun Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series: Zoology 14 (2 …, 1911 | 221* | 1911 |
| A revision of the nomenclature of the Brachyura MJ Rathbun Proceedings of the biological society of Washington 11, 153-167, 1897 | 204 | 1897 |
| Japanese stalk-eyed crustaceans MJ Rathbun Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1902 | 178 | 1902 |
| Descriptions of new decapod crustaceans from the west coast of North America MJ Rathbun Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1902 | 176 | 1902 |
| The stalk-eyed Crustacea of Peru and the adjacent coast MJ Rathbun US Government Printing Office, 1910 | 155 | 1910 |
| The Brachyura collected by the US Fish commission steamer Albatross on the voyage from Norfolk, Virginia, to San Francisco, California, 1887-1888 MJ Rathbun Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1898 | 151 | 1898 |
| Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region MJ Rathbun US Government Printing Office, 1918 | 143* | 1918 |
| The Brachyura of the biological expedition to the Florida Keys and the Bahamas in 1893 MJ Rathbun Bulletin of the Laboratories of Natural History of the State University of …, 1898 | 130 | 1898 |
| Results of the Branner-Agassiz expedition to Brazil. I. The decapod and stomatopod Crustacea MJ Rathbun Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 2, 133-156, 1900 | 125 | 1900 |
James E. Benedict (1854-1940)Dept. Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian InstitutionVerified email at si.edu