2001

• Cairns, S.D. 2001. Studies om western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). part 1: The genus Chrysogorgia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114 (3): 746-787. BHL.Reference page. 

2002

• Cairns, S.D. & Bayer, F.M. 2002: Studies On Western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata : Anthozoa). Part 2: The Genus Callogorgia Gray, 1858. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 115(4):840-867. BHL Reference page. 

2004

• Cairns, S.D. & Bayer, F.M. 2004: Studies On Western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata : Anthozoa). Part 5: The genera Plumarella Gray, 1870; Acanthoprimnoa, n. gen.; and Candinella Bayer, 1954. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 117(4):447-487. BHL URL Reference page. 

2006

• Cairns, S.D. 2006. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 6: The genera Primnoella Gray, 1858; Thouarella Gray, 1870; Dasystenella Versluys, 1906. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 19: 161-194 Reference page. 

2015

• Breedy, O., Cairns, S.D. & Haussermann, V. 2015: A new alcyonacean octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia) from Chilean fjords. Zootaxa 3919(2): 327–334. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.5 . Reference page. 

• Pica, D., Cairns, S.D., Puce, S. & Newman, W.A. 2015. Southern hemisphere deep-water stylasterid corals including a new species, Errina labrosa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae), with notes on some symbiotic scalpellids (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Scalpellidae). ZooKeys, 472: 1–25. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.472.8547 Reference page. 

2016

• Cairns, S.D. 2016. A key to the genera and species of the transversely-dividing Flabellidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Flabellidae), with a guide to the literature, and the description of two new species. ZooKeys 562: 1–48. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.562.7310 .Reference page. 

• Cairns, S.D. 2016. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Primnoid octocorals (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea) – Part 2. Primnoella, Callozostron, Metafannyella, Fanellia and other genera. NIWA biodiversity memoir (129). 132 pp. PDF. Reference page. 

2017

• Cairns, S.D. & Cordeiro, R.T.S. 2017. A new genus and species of golden coral (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Chrysogorgiidae) from the Northwest Atlantic. ZooKeys 668: 1–10. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.668.12203 . Reference page. 

• Cordeiro, R.T.S., Cairns, S.D. & Pérez, C.D. 2017. A revision of the genus Radicipes Stearns, 1883 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae). Zootaxa 4319(1): 1–26. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.1.1 . Reference page. 

2018

• Cairns, S.D. 2018. Deep-Water Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Part 1: Suborder Calcaxonia. Zookeys, 729: 1–46. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.729.21779 . Reference page. 

• Cairns, S.D. 2018. Corrigenda: Cairns SD (2018) Deep-Water Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Part 1: Suborder Calcaxonia. ZooKeys 729: 1–46. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.729.21779. ZooKeys 735: 141–141. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.735.23890 . Reference page. 

• Cairns, S.D., Stone, R.P., Moon, H.W. & Lee, J.H. 2018. Primnoidae (Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) from the Emperor Seamounts, with notes on Callogorgia elegans (Gray, 1870). Pacific science, 72(1): 125-142. DOI: 10.2984/72.1.8 Reference page. 

2019

• Cairns, S.D. & Taylor, M.L. 2019. An illustrated key to the species of the genus Narella (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Primnoidae). Zookeys, 822: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.822.29922 Reference page. 

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