| Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences LMP Ceríaco, EE Gutiérrez, A Dubois, M Carr Zootaxa 4196 (3), 435-445, 2016 | 142 | 2016 |
| An updated list of the amphibians and reptiles of Honduras, with comments on their nomenclature JM Solís, LD Wilson, JH Townsend Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (1), 123-144, 2014 | 108 | 2014 |
| Conservation of Mesoamerican amphibians and reptiles JH Townsend, JD Johnson, JB Murphy Eagle Mountain, Utah Eagle Mountain Publishing, 2010 | 65 | 2010 |
| A checklist and key to the snakes of the genus Geophis (Squamata: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), with commentary on distribution and conservation LD Wilson, JH Townsend Zootaxa 1395 (1), 1-31, 2007 | 62 | 2007 |
| Cryptic diversity, but to what extent? Discordance between single-locus species delimitation methods within mainland anoles (Squamata: Dactyloidae) of northern central America EP Hofmann, KE Nicholson, IR Luque-Montes, G Köhler, ... Frontiers in Genetics 10, 11, 2019 | 55 | 2019 |
| Finding complexity in complexes: assessing the causes of mitonuclear discordance in a problematic species complex of Mesoamerican toads TJ Firneno Jr, JR O’Neill, DM Portik, AH Emery, JH Townsend, MK Fujita Molecular ecology 29 (18), 3543-3559, 2020 | 53 | 2020 |
| Cryptic diversity in disjunct populations of Middle American Montane Pitvipers: a systematic reassessment of Cerrophidion godmani RC Jadin, JH Townsend, TA Castoe, JA Campbell Zoologica Scripta 41 (5), 455-470, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| Introduced iguanas in southern Florida: a history of more than 35 years JH Townsend, KL Krysko, KM Enge Iguana 10 (4), 111-118, 2003 | 48 | 2003 |
| Characterizing the Chortís block biogeographic province: geological, physiographic, and ecological associations and herpetofaunal diversity JH Townsend Mesoamerican Herpetology 1 (2), 204-252, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| Conservation of the Honduran herpetofauna: issues and imperatives JH Townsend, LD Wilson Conservation of mesoamerican amphibians and reptiles, 460-487, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| The amphibians and reptiles of the Honduran Mosquitia. JR McCranie, JH Townsend, LD Wilson | 40 | 2006 |
| Predation of Caretta caretta (Testudines: Cheloniidae) eggs by larvae of Lanelater sallei (Coleoptera: Elateridae) on Key Biscayne, Florida EM Donlan, JH Townsend, EA Golden Caribbean Journal of Science 40 (3), 415-420, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| A relict lineage and new species of green palm-pitviper (Squamata, Viperidae, Bothriechis) from the Chortís Highlands of Mesoamerica JH Townsend, M Medina-Flores, LD Wilson, RC Jadin, JD Austin ZooKeys, 77, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| A premontane hotspot for herpetological endemism on the windward side of Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texíguat, Honduras JH Townsend, LD Wilson, M Medina-Flores, E Aguilar-Urbina, ... Salamandra 48 (2), 92-114, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Two new sympatric species of leaf-toed geckos (Gekkonidae: Phyllodactylus) from the Balsas region of the upper Marañón Valley, Peru PJ Venegas, JH Townsend, C Koch, W Böhme Journal of Herpetology 42 (2), 386-396, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| First report of sporangia of a myxomycete (Physarum pusillum) on the body of a living animal, the lizard Corytophanes cristatus JH Townsend, HC Aldrich, LD Wilson, JR McCranie Mycologia 97 (2), 346-348, 2005 | 33 | 2005 |
| Phylogeny-based species delimitation and integrative taxonomic revision of the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni species complex, with resurrection of H. viridissimum (Taylor, 1942) AM Mendoza-Henao, E Arias, JH Townsend, G Parra-Olea Systematics and Biodiversity 18 (5), 464-484, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| Geographic distribution and conservation of the Mexican central highlands herpetofauna O Flores-Villela, L Canseco-Márquez, LM Ochoa-Ochoa, LD Wilson, ... Conservation of the Mesoamerican amphibians and reptiles. Eagle Mountain …, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| Guide to the amphibians & reptiles of Cusuco National Park, Honduras= Guâia de los anfibios y reptiles del Parque Nacional Cusuco, Honduras JH Townsend Bibliomania!, 2008 | 31 | 2008 |
| A taxonomic revision of the Norops tropidonotus complex (Squamata, Dactyloidae), with the resurrection of N. spilorhipis (Álvarez del Toro and Smith, 1956) and the description … G Köhler, JH Townsend, CBP Petersen Mesoamerican Herpetology 3 (1), 8-41, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
