| The magnitude of global marine species diversity DG Appletans, Ward and 119 others, including Fautin Current Biology 22, 1-14, 2012 | 1210* | 2012 |
| Coral bleaching as an adaptive mechanism RW Buddemeier, DG Fautin Bioscience 43 (5), 320-326, 1993 | 865 | 1993 |
| The phylum Cnidaria: a review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus CS McFadden, M Daly, MR Brugler, P Cartwright, AG Collins, MN Dawson, ... | 668 | 2007 |
| Field guide to anemonefishes and their host sea anemones DG Fautin, GR Allen, GR Allen, A Naturalist, GR Allen, A Naturaliste Western Australian Museum, 1992 | 579* | 1992 |
| Managing for ocean biodiversity: creating a national biodiversity conservation agenda to sustain marine ecosystem services SR Palumbi, PA Sandifer, JD Allan, MW Beck, DG Fautin, MJ Fogarty, ... Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7, 204-211, 2009 | 371 | 2009 |
| The clownfish sea anemones: Stichodactylidae (Coelenterata: Actiniaria) and other sea anemones symbiotic with pomacentrid fishes DF Dunn Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 71 (1), 1-115, 1981 | 268 | 1981 |
| Cnidaria: anthozoa DG Fautin, RN Mariscal Wiley-Liss, 1991 | 244 | 1991 |
| Reproduction of cnidaria DG Fautin Canadian Journal of Zoology 80 (10), 1735-1754, 2002 | 239 | 2002 |
| Review article The Anemonefish Symbiosis: What is Known and What is Not DG Fautin Symbiosis, 1991 | 228 | 1991 |
| Systematics of the hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) M Daly, DG Fautin, VA Cappola Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 (3), 419-437, 2003 | 188 | 2003 |
| An overview of marine biodiversity in United States waters P Fautin, D., Dalton, LS Incze, JA Leong, C Pautzke, A Rosenberg, ... PLoS ONE 5 (8), e11914, 2010 | 173 | 2010 |
| The origins of modern corals GD Stanley Jr, DG Fautin Science 291 (5510), 1913-1914, 2001 | 170 | 2001 |
| Finding NEMO - nestedness engendered by mutualistic organisation in anemonefish and their hosts J Ollerton, D McCollin, DG Fautin, GR Allen Proceedings of the Royal Society, 591-598, 2007 | 160 | 2007 |
| The adaptive hypothesis of bleaching RW Buddemeier, AC Baker, DG Fautin, JR Jacobs Coral health and disease, 427-444, 2004 | 147 | 2004 |
| Host recognition and possible imprinting in the anemonefish Amphiprion melanopus (Pisces: Pomacentridae) M Arvedlund, MI McCormick, DG Fautin, M Bildsøe Marine Ecology Progress Series 188, 207-218, 1999 | 142 | 1999 |
| Envisioning a marine biodiversity observation network JE Duffy, LA Amaral-Zettler, DG Fautin, G Paulay, TA Rynearson, ... Bioscience 63 (5), 350-361, 2013 | 127 | 2013 |
| Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora SD Cairns, DR Calder, A Brinckmann-Voss, CB Castro, DG Fautin, ... American Fisheries Society, 2002 | 127 | 2002 |
| Adaptive bleaching: a general phenomenon DG Fautin, RW Buddemeier Hydrobiologia 530, 459-467, 2004 | 123 | 2004 |
| Patterns of coral bleaching: modeling the adaptive bleaching hypothesis JR Ware, DG Fautin, RW Buddemeier Ecological Modelling 84 (1-3), 199-214, 1996 | 118 | 1996 |
| Importance of nematocysts to actinian taxonomy DG Fautin The biology of nematocysts, 487-500, 1988 | 107 | 1988 |
