1980s

• Ballantine, D.L. & Wynne, M.J. 1985. Platysiphonia and Apoglossum (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) in the tropical western Atlantic. Phycologia 24: 459–465.

• Ballantine, D.L. & Wynne, M.J. 1986. Notes on the marine algae of Puerto Rico. II. Additions of Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyta) including Ceramium verongiae sp. nov. Botanica Marina 29: 497-502. Reference page. 

• Searles, R.B. & Ballantine, D.L. 1986. Dudresnaya puertoricensis sp. nov. (Dumontiaceae, Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology 22: 389–394. Reference page. 

1990s

• Norris, J.N. & Ballantine, D.L. 1995. Two new species of the red alga Chrysymenia J. Agardh (Rhodymeniales : Rhodymeniaceae) from the tropical western Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(1): 153–165. Reference page. 

• Aponte, N.E. & Ballantine, D.L. 1995. Aglaothamnion flexibile sp. nov. and Seirospora viridis sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico. Phycologia 34: 102–12. DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-34-2-102.1 Reference page. 
• Ballantine, D.L. & Wynne, M.J. 1998. Ptilothamnion speluncarum (Collins & Herv.) comb. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico. Cryptogamie, Algologie 19(3): 223–229, 6 figs.

2000s

• Huisman, J.M., Ballantine, D. & Wynne, M.J. 2001 '2000'. Liagorothamnion mucoides gen. et sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Caribbean Sea. Phycologia 39: 507–516. Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L., Ruiz, H. & Aponte, N.E. 2002. Predaea goffiana sp. nov., (Nemastomataceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina 45: 385–389. Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L., García, M., Gómez, S. & Wynne, M.J. 2003. Schimmelmannia venezuelensis sp. nov. (Gloiosiphoniaceae, Rhodophyta) from Venezuela. Botanica Marina 46: 450–455. DOI: 10.1515/BOT.2003.045 Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L. 2004. Chylocladia schneideri sp. nov. (Champiaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Cyptogamie, Algologie 25: 125–132. Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L. & N.E. Aponte 2005. An annotated checklist of deep-reef benthic marine algae from Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas (western Atlantic). II. Rhodophyta. Nova Hedwigia 80: 147–171. Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L. & Abbott, I.A. 2006. Ganonema vermiculare sp. nov. (Liagoraceae, Rhodophyta), a new species from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina 49: 122–128. Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L., Saunders, G.W. & Ruiz, H. 2007. Halichrysis corallinarius sp. nov. (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Phycological Research 55(3): 240–248. Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L. & Lozada-Troche, C. 2008. Champia harveyana sp. nov. (Champiaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina 51: 388–398. Reference page. 

2010s

• Ballantine, D.L., Ruiz, H. & Lozada-Troche, C. 2010. Chamaebotrys prolifera sp. nov. (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, based on morphology and small subunit rDNA sequences. Phycological Research 58(1): 69–77. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1835.2009.00560.x Reference page. 

• Lozada -Troche, C. & Ballantine, D.L. 2010. Champia puertoricensis (Rhodophyta: Champiaceae) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina 53(2): 131–141. Reference page. 

• Lozada-Troche, C., Ballantine, D.L. & Ruiz, H. 2010. Cresia opalescens gen. et sp. nov. (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Cryptogamie, Algologie 31(3): 293–303. Reference page. 
• Abbott, I.A., Ballantine, D.L. & O'Doherty, D.C. 2010. Morphological relationships within the genus Lophocladia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) including a description of L. kuesteri sp. nov. from Hawai'i. Phycologia 49(4): 390–401. DOI: 10.2216/09-81.1

• Ballantine, D. & Ruiz, H. 2011. Metapeyssonnelia milleporoides a new species of coral-killing red alga (Peyssonneliaceae) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina 54(1): 47–51. Reference page. 

• Abbott, I.A. & Ballantine, D.L. 2012. Veleroa setteana, n. sp. (Rhodophyta, Rhodomelaceae), from the Hawaiian Archipelago, including notes on the generitype. Pacific Science 66(3): 387–395, 3 fig., 1 table. Reference page. 

• Athanasiadis, A., Ballantine, D.L. & Ruiz, H. 2013. Hydrolithon abyssophila sp. nov. (Hydrolithoideae, Corallinales), a bisporic coralline from the insular shelf edge of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (US). Botanica Marina 56(5/6): 495–505, 17 figs, 1 table. DOI: 10.1515/bot-2013-0019 Reference page. 
• Athanasiadis, A. & Ballantine, D.L. 2014. The genera Melyvonnea gen. nov. and Mesophyllum s.s. (Melobesioideae, Corallinales, Rhodophyta) particularly from the central Atlantic Ocean. Nordic Journal of Botany 35: 385–436.

• Lin, S.-M., Huisman, J.M. & Ballantine, D.L. 2014. Revisiting the systematics of Ganonema (Liagoraceae, Rhodophyta) with emphasis on species from the northwest Pacific Ocean. Phycologia 53(1): 37–51. Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L., Lozada-Troche, C. & Ruiz, H. 2014. Metapeyssonnelia tangerina (Peyssonneliaceae, Rhodophyta), a new species associated with coral reef habitats in Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Phycological research 62(3): 97–205. DOI: 10.1111/pre.12051 Reference page. 

• Bucher, K.E., Ballantine,D.L., Lozada-Troche, C. & Norris, J.N. 2014. Wrangelia gordoniae, a new species of Rhodophyta (Ceramiales, Wrangeliaceae (from the tropical western Atlantic. Botanica Marina 57(4): 265–280. DOI: 10.1515/bot-2014-0012 Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L., Ruíz, H. & Norris, J.N. 2015. Notes on the benthic marine algae of Puerto Rico, XI: new records including new Meredithia (Kallymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) species. Botanica Marina 58(5): 355–365. DOI: 10.1515/bot-2015-0005 Reference page. 

• Ballantine, D.L., Ruiz, H., Lozada-Troche, C. & Norris, J.N. 2016. The genus Ramicrusta (Peyssonneliales, Rhodophyta) in the Caribbean Sea, including Ramicrusta bonairensis sp. nov. and Ramicrusta monensis sp. nov. Botanica Marina 59(6): 417–431, 23 fig., 2 tables. DOI: 10.1515/bot-2016-0086 Reference page. 

• Schmidt, W.E., Lozada-Troche, C., Ballantine, D.L., Arakaki, N., Gabriel, D., Norris, J.N. & Fredericq, S. 2017. Taxonomic transfer of the red algae Chrysymenia enteromorpha and C. wrightii to the genus Botryocladia (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodymeniales). Phytotaxa 324(2): 122–138, 30 figs, 2 tables. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.324.2.2 Reference page.