1988

• Kottelat, M. 1988. Authorship, dates of publication, status and types of Spix and Agassiz's Brazilian fishes. Spixiana (Munich) v. 11 (no. 1): 69–93. Reference page. 

• Kottelat, M. 1988. Two species of cavefishes from northern Thailand in the genera Nemacheilus and Homaloptera (Osteichthyes: Homalopteridae). Records of the Australian Museum 40(4): 225–231. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.156 Reference page. 

1990

• Kottelat, M. 1990. Indochinese nemacheilines. A revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. 1–262. ISBN 978-3-923871-47-6 Reference page. 

1991

• Kottelat, M. 1991. Notes on the taxonomy of some Sundaic and Indochinese species of Rasbora, with description of four new species (Pisces: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 2(2): 177–191. Reference page. 

1992

• Larson, H.K. & Kottelat, M. 1992. A new species of Mugilogobius (Pisces: Gobiidae) from Lake Matano, central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 3(3): 225–234. Reference page. 

1996

• Berrebi, P., Kottelat, M., Skelton, P. & Rab, P. 1996. Systematics of Barbus: State of the art and heuristic comments. Folia Zoologica 45: 5–12. Reference page. 

1999

• Fang, F. & Kottelat, M. 1999. Danio species from northern Laos, with descriptions of three new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 10(3): 281–295. Reference page. 

2000

• Kottelat, M. 2000. Diagnoses of a new genus and 64 new species of fishes from Laos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae, Balitoridae, Bagridae, Syngnathidae, Chaudhuriidae and Tetraodontidae). Journal of South Asian Natural History 5(1): 37–82. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Fang, F. & Kottelat, M. 2000. Danio roseus, a new species from the Mekong basin in northeastern Thailand and northwestern Laos (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 11(2): 149–154. Reference page. 

2003

• Kottelat, M. 2003. Parambassis pulcinella, a new species of glassperch (Teleostei: Ambassidae) from the Ataran River basin (Myanmar), with comments on the family-group names Ambassidae, Chandidae and Bogodidae. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 14(1): 9–18. Reference page. 

• Turan, D., Kottelat, M., Kirankaya, Ş.G. & Engin, S. 2006. Capoeta ekmekciae, a new species of cyprinid fish from northeastern Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 17(2): 147–156. Abstract (PDF).Reference page. 

2007

• Kottelat, M., Barbieri, R. & Stoumboudi, M.T. 2007. Aphanius almiriensis, a new species of toothcarp from Greece (Teleostei: Cyprinodontidae), Revue Suisse de zoologie 114(1): 13–31. Reference page. 

2008

• Tan, H.H. & Kottelat, M. 2008. Revision of the cyprinid fish genus Eirmotus, with description of three new species from Sumatra and Borneo. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56(2): 423–433. PDF. Reference page. 

• Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. 2008. Kottelatlimia hipporhynchos, a new species of loach from southern Borneo (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Zootaxa 1967(1): 63–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1967.1.4 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 

2009

• Turan, D., Kottelat, M. & Güler Ekmekçi, F. 2009. Barbus niluferensis, a new species of barbel (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Nilüfer River, Turkey, with re-description of B. oligolepis. Zootaxa 1981(1): 15–28. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1981.1.2 . Reference page. 

2011

• Kottelat, M. & Tan, H.H. 2011. Systomus xouthos, a new cyprinid fish from Borneo, and revalidation of Puntius pulcher (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 22(3): 209–214. Reference page. 

2012

• Britz, R., Kottelat. M, & Tan, H.H. 2012. Fangfangia spinicleithralis, a new genus and species of miniature cyprinid fish from the peat swamp forests of Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 22(4): 327–335, 4 figs., 1 tab. PDF. Reference page. 

• Kottelat, M. 2012. Conspectus cobitidum: an inventory of the loaches of the world (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cobitoidei). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 26(Supplement 26): 1–199. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2013

• Kottelat, M. 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibiography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement No. 27: 1–663. Full issue (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

• Kottelat, M. 2016. On Gonorynchus, Gonorhynchus, Gonorinchus, Gonorhinchus and Gonorrhynchus, and some other names of labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Gonorynchidae and Cyprinidae). Zootaxa 4178(3): 443–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.3.8 . Reference page. 

2017

• Kottelat, M. 2017. Speolabeo, a new genus name for the cave fish Bangana musaei (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa 4254(4): 493–499. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.6 Reference page. 

• Kottelat, M. 2017. Schistura epixenos, a new species of loach from the Nakai Plateau, Laos (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4300(1): 44–54. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.2 . Reference page. 

• Ng, H.H. & Kottelat, M. 2017. The Glyptothorax of the Bolaven Plateau, Laos (Teleostei: Sisoridae): new and endangered. Zootaxa 4238(3): 406–416. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.7 . Reference page. 

• Turan, D., Kottelat, M. & Bayçelebi, E. 2017. Squalius semae, a new species of chub from the Euphrates River, Eastern Anatolia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) Zoology in the Middle East 63(1): 33-42. DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2017.1290761 Reference page. 

2019

• Kottelat, M. 2019. Rhyacoschistura larreci, a new genus and species of loach from Laos and redescription of R. suber (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Zootaxa 4612(2): 151–170. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.2.1 . Reference page.