| The stage for Neotropical fish diversification: a history of tropical South American rivers JG Lundberg, LG Marshall, J Guerrero, B Horton, M Malabarba, ... Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes, 13-48, 1998 | 972* | 1998 |
| Genera incertae sedis in Characidae FCT Lima, LR Malabarba, PA Buckup, JFP Da Silva, RP Vari, A Harold, ... Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America. Porto …, 2003 | 495 | 2003 |
| Revision of the Neotropical genus Triportheus Cope, 1872 (Characiformes: Characidae) MCSL Malabarba Neotropical Ichthyology 2, 167-204, 2004 | 106 | 2004 |
| Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes JG Lundberg, LG Marshall, J Guerrero, B Horton, M Malabarba, ... The Stage for Neotropical Fish Diversification: a History of Tropical South …, 1998 | 103 | 1998 |
| Pareiasaurids from the Rio do Rasto Formation, southern Brazil: biostratigraphic implications for Permian faunas of the Paraná Basin JC Cisneros, F Abdala, MC Malabarba Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 8 (1), 13-24, 2005 | 94 | 2005 |
| Phylogeny of fossil Characiformes and paleobiogeography of the Tremembé formation, São Paulo, Brazil M Malabarba Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes 69, 84, 1998 | 88 | 1998 |
| Gymnogeophagus eocenicus, n. sp. (Perciformes: Cichlidae), an Eocene cichlid from the Lumbrera Formation in Argentina MC Malabarba, LR Malabarba, CD Papa Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2), 341-350, 2010 | 60 | 2010 |
| Peixes do albiano-cenomaniano do grupo itapecuru no Estado do Maranhão, Brasil MFA Dutra, M Malabarba O Cretáceo da Bacia de São Luis-Grajaú, MPEQ, 191-208, 2001 | 53 | 2001 |
| New data on the late Permian vertebrate fauna of Posto Queimado, Rio do Rasto Formation, southern Brazil MC Malabarba, F Abdala, FE Weiss, PA Perez Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 6, 49-54, 2003 | 50 | 2003 |
| Proterocara argentina, a new fossil cichlid from the Lumbrera Formation, Eocene of Argentina MC Malabarba, O Zuleta, CD Papa Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (2), 267-275, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Biogeography of Characiformes: an evaluation of the available information of fossil and extant taxa MC Malabarba, LR Malabarba Origin and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of Teleosts, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fish LR Malabarba, MC Malabarba Biology and physiology of freshwater neotropical fish, 1-19, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| Descriptions of five new species of the Neotropical cichlid genus Gymnogeophagus Miranda Ribeiro, 1918 (Teleostei: Cichliformes) from the rio Uruguay drainage LR Malabarba, MC Malabarba, RE Reis Neotropical Ichthyology 13, 637-662, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
| A new genus and species of Heroini (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the early Eocene of southern South America PA Perez, MC Malabarba, C del Papa Neotropical Ichthyology 8, 631-642, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
| A fossil loricariid catfish (Siluriformes: Loricarioidea) from the Taubaté Basin, eastern Brazil MC Malabarba, JG Lundberg Neotropical Ichthyology 5, 263-270, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| Characidae, genera incertae sedis FCT Lima, LR Malabarba, PA Buckup, JF Pezzi da Silva, RP Vari, ... Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America. Porto …, 2003 | 29 | 2003 |
| Phylogenetic relationships of Paleotetra, a new characiform fish (Ostariophysi) with two new species from the Eocene-Oligocene of south-eastern Brazil FE Weiss, LR Malabarba, MC Malabarba Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 (1), 73-86, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Hypobrycon maromba, a new genus and species of characiform fish from the upper rio Uruguai, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characidae) M Malabarba, LR Malabarba Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 5 (1), 19-24, 1994 | 27 | 1994 |
| A new clupeomorph fish from the Cretaceous Maceió Formation, Alagoas Basin, NE Brazil MC Malabarba, DA Do Carmo, I Gómez-Pérez, JV de Queiroz-Neto Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen, 255-274, 2004 | 26 | 2004 |
| A new genus and species of stem group actinopteran fish from the Lower Permian of Santa Catarina State, Brazil MCL MALABARBA Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 94 (3), 287-299, 1988 | 25 | 1988 |
