| A theory concerning the distance travelled by animals entering the drift of a stream C McLay Journal of the Fisheries Board of Canada 27 (2), 359-370, 1970 | 187 | 1970 |
| Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand CL McLay University of Auckland Marine Laboratory, 1988 | 163 | 1988 |
| Crustacea Decapoda: The sponge crabs (Dromiidae) of New Caledonia and the Philippines with a review of the genera CL McLAY Résultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM 10, 111-251, 1993 | 148 | 1993 |
| The effect of pH on the population growth of three species of duckweed: Spirodela oligorrhiza, Lemna minor and Wolffia arrhiza CL McLay Freshwater Biology 6 (2), 125-136, 1976 | 121 | 1976 |
| Human-mediated spread of alien crabs A Brockerhoff, C McLay In the wrong place-alien marine crustaceans: distribution, biology and …, 2011 | 113 | 2011 |
| A hypothesis about the origin of sperm storage in the Eubrachyura, the effects of seminal receptacle structure on mating strategies and the evolution of crab diversity: How did … CL McLay, LSL Greco Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology 250 (4), 378-406, 2011 | 102 | 2011 |
| Crustacea Decapoda: revision of the family Dynomenidae CL McLay Résultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM 20, 427-569, 1999 | 101 | 1999 |
| A study of drift in the Kakanui River, New Zealand CL McLay Marine and Freshwater Research 19 (2), 139-150, 1968 | 97 | 1968 |
| Reproduction in brachyura CL McLay, C Becker Treatise on Zoology-Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, Volume 9 Part …, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| Mating behaviour, female receptivity and male–male competition in the intertidal crab Hemigrapsus sexdentatus (Brachyura: Grapsidae) AM Brockerhoff, CL McLay Marine Ecology Progress Series 290, 179-191, 2005 | 61 | 2005 |
| Moulting and growth in Brachyura CL McLay Treatise on Zoology-Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, Volume 9 Part …, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| Contingencies in the behaviour of the crab Heterozius rotundifrons BA Hazlett, C McLay Animal behaviour 59 (5), 965-974, 2000 | 57 | 2000 |
| An inventory of the status and origin of New Zealand estuarine systems CL McLAY Proceedings (New Zealand Ecological Society), 8-26, 1976 | 55 | 1976 |
| Use of camouflage materials as a food store by the spider crab Notomithrax ursus (Brachyura: Majidae) CMC Woods, CL McLay New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28 (1), 97-104, 1994 | 54 | 1994 |
| Comparative observations on the ecology of four species of ostracods living in a temporary freshwater puddle CL McLay Canadian Journal of Zoology 56 (4), 663-675, 1978 | 51 | 1978 |
| Is the Brachyura Podotremata a monophyletic group? G SCHOLTZ, CL MCLAY Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, 429-448, 2016 | 49 | 2016 |
| To invade or not to invade? Exploring the niche-based processes underlying the failure of a biological invasion using the invasive Chinese mitten crab Z Zhang, S Mammola, CL McLay, C Capinha, M Yokota Science of the Total Environment 728, 138815, 2020 | 47 | 2020 |
| Comparative analysis of the mating strategies in grapsid crabs with special references to the intertidal crabs Cyclograpsus lavauxi and Helice crassa (Decapoda: Grapsidae) from … AM Brockerhoff, CL McLay Journal of Crustacean Biology 25 (3), 507-520, 2005 | 47 | 2005 |
| Handling times, prey size and species selection by Cancer novaezelandiae (Jacquinot, 1853) feeding on molluscan prey PD Creswell, CL Mclay Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 140 (1-2), 13-28, 1990 | 47 | 1990 |
| Competition and niche segregation following the arrival of Hemigrapsus takanoi in the formerly Carcinus maenas dominated Dutch delta AM Van den Brink, S Wijnhoven, CL McLay Journal of Sea Research 73, 126-136, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
