2008

• Conway, K.W. & Mayden, R.L. 2008. Psilorhynchus breviminor, a new species of psilorhynchid fish from Myanmar (Ostariophysi: Psilorhynchidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 19(2): 111–120. Abstract. Reference page. 

2009

• Layman, S.R. & Mayden, R.L. 2009. A New Species of the Darter Subgenus Doration (Percidae: Etheostoma) from the Caney Fork River System, Tennessee. Copeia 2009(1): 157–170. DOI: 10.1643/CI-07-129 Reference page. 

2012

• Chen, W.-J. & Mayden, R.L. 2012. Phylogeny of suckers (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Catostomidae): further evidence of relationships provided by the single-copy nuclear gene IRBP2. Zootaxa 3586: 195–210. Preview PDF Reference page. 

• Yang, L., Arunchalam, M., Sado, T., Levin, B.A., Golubtsov, A. S., Freyhof, J., Friel, J.P., Chen, W.-J., Hirt, M.V., Manickam, R., Agnew, M.K., Simons, A.M., Saitoh, K., Miya, M., Mayden, R.L. & He, S. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the cyprinid tribe Labeonini (Teleostei: Cypriniforms). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 362–379. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.007 Reference page. 

2015

• Yang, L., Sado, T., Hirt, M.V., Pasco-Viel, E., Arunachalam, M., Li, J., Wang, X., Freyhof, J., Saitoh, K., Simons, A.M., Miya, M., He, S., & Mayden, R.L. 2015. Phylogeny and polyploidy: resolving the classification of cyprinine fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85: 97–116. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.01.014 Reference page. 

• Thoni, R.J. & Mayden, R.L. 2015. Garra robertsi, a new cyprinid (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) fish species from Borneo. Zootaxa 3985(2): 284–290. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.7 . Preview (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

• Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja, S. & Mayden, R.L. 2016. Remarkable Rediscovery of Barbus (=Hypselobarbus) mussullah (Sykes) after 175 years of hiatus and description of a new species of Hypselobarbus Bleeker from peninsular India (Cyprinidae: Cypriniformes). Journal of Fish Taxonomy 1: 1–13. Reference page. 

• Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja, S. & Mayden, R.L. 2016. New species of Hypselobarbus (Cyprinidae: Cypriniformes) from Cauvery River Basin, South India. International Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology 4(1): 99–106. PDF. Reference page. 

• Beshera, K.A., Harris, P.M. & Mayden, R.L. 2016. Novel evolutionary lineages in Labeobarbus (Cypriniformes; Cyprinidae) based on phylogenetic analyses of mtDNA sequences. Zootaxa 4093(3): 363–381. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.3.4 . Reference page. 

• Arunachalam, M., Chinnaraja, S. & Mayden, R.L.: Description of a new species of Hypselobarbus from Kerala region of Western Ghats, peninsular India (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae). Iranian Journal of Ichthyology 3(2): 73–81. DOI: 10.22034/iji.v3i2.147 . Reference page. 

• Kangrang, P., Thoni, R.J., Mayden, R.L. & Beamish, F.W.H. 2016. Garra fluviatilis, a new hillstream fish species (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) from the Kwai Noi River system, Mae Khlong basin, Thailand. Zootaxa 4175(3): 335–344. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.3.3 Reference page. 

• Schönhuth, S., Beachum, C.E., Knouft, J.H. & Mayden, R.L. 2016. Phylogeny and genetic variation within the widely distributed Bluntnose Minnow, Pimephales notatus (Cyprinidae), in North America. Zootaxa 4168(1): 38–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.1.2 Reference page. 

• Thoni, R.J., Gurung, D.B. & Mayden, R.L. 2016. A review of the genus Garra Hamilton 1822 of Bhutan, including the descriptions of two new species and three additional records (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa 4169(1): 115–132. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.1.5 . Reference page. 

2017

• Gilbert, C.R., Mayden, R.L. & Powers, S.L. 2017. Morphological and genetic evolution in eastern populations of the Macrhybopsis aestivalis complex (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), with the descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 4247(5): 501–555. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.5.1 Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2018

• Echelle, A.A., Lang, N.J., Borden, W.C., Schwemm, M.R., Hoagstrom, C.W., Eisenhour, D.J., Mayden, R.L. & van den Bussche, R.A. 2018. Molecular systematics of the North American chub genus Macrhybopsis (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Zootaxa 4375(4): 537–554. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.4.4 Reference page.