Cairns, S. D. l977. Guide to the commoner shallow-water gorgonians of South Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean region.  University of Miami Sea Grant Field Guide Series 6: 74 pp., 26 pls.  (3)

 

_____.  2001. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 1. The genus Chrysogorgia.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 114(3): 746-787, 18 pl.  (87)

 

______.  2002 . A new species of Chrysogorgia (Anthozoa: Chrysogorgiidae) from the Antarctic.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 115(1): 217-222, 3 figs.  (94)

 

Cairns, S. D., and F. M. Bayer. 2002. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 2: The genus Callogorgia Gray, 1858.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 115(4): 840-867, 11 figs.  (98)

 

Bayer, F. M. and S. D. Cairns 2003. A new genus of the scleraxonian family Coralliidae (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea).  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 116(1): 222-228, 2 figs.  (101)

 

Cairns, S. D. and F. M. Bayer. 2003.  Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 3: The genus Narella Gray, 1870.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 116(2): 617-648, 14 figs.  (102)

 

______, & F. M. Bayer. 2004. Narella regularis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) (Coelenterata: Octocorallia: Primnoidae): proposed conservation of prevailing usage by a neotype.  Bull. Zool. Nomenclature, 61(1): 7-10, 1 fig.  (104)

 

______ & ______. 2004. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 4: The genus Paracalyptrophora Kinoshita, 1908.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 177(1): 174-199, 12 pls.  (105)

 

Sanchez, J. A., & S. D. Cairns. 2004.  An unusual new gorgonian coral (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.  Zool. Meded. 78(15): 265-274, 8 figs.  (106)

 

Bayer, F. M. & S. D. Cairns (eds.). 2004. The unpublished plates for A. E. Verrill’s unfinished report on the Alcyonaria of the “Blake” expeditions.  i-viii + 156 pls., Dept. of Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C.  (112)

 

Cairns, S. D. and F. M. Bayer. 2004. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 5: The genera Plumarella Gray, 1870; Acanthoprimnoa, n. gen.; and Candidella Bayer, 1954. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 117(4): 447-487, 14 pls.  (110)

 

Cairns, S. D. and F. M. Bayer. 2005.  A review of the genus Primnoa (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae), with the description of two new species.  Bull. Mar. Sci. 77(2): 225-256, 11 pls. (119)

 

Cairns, S. D. 2006. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 6. The genera Primnoella Gray, 1858; Thouarella Gray, 1870; Dasystenella Versluys, 1906.  Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 119(2): 161-194, 15 pls. (122)