1949

• Bayer, F.M. 1949. Chalcogorgia, a new subfamily of Chrysogorgiidae (Coelenterata: Alcyonaria), and a description of Chalcogorgia pellucida, new genus and new species, from the Straits of Florida. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 39(7):237-240, 1 fig.

1951

• Bayer, F.M. 1951. A new Caribbean coral of the genus Chrysogorgia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 101(3276):269-273, figs. 56-57, pi. 9.

1952

• Bayer, F.M. 1952. New western records of octocorals (Coelentarata: Anthozoa), with descriptions of three new species. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 42(6): 183–189, 1 fig. BHL Reference page. 

1954

• Bayer, F.M. 1954. Anthozoa: Alcyonaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Widlife Services. 89: 279-284

• Bayer, F.M. 1954. New names for two genera of Octocorallia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 44(9): 296. BHL Reference page. 

1955

• Bayer, F.M. 1955. Remarkably preserved fossil sep-pens and their recent counterparts. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 45(9): 294–300, 2 figs. BHL Reference page. 

• Bayer, F.M. 1955. Contributions to the nomenclature, systematics, and morphology of the Octocorallia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 105: 207–220, 8 pls. BHL Reference page. 

1956

• Bayer, F.M. 1956. Octocorallia. Pp. F166-189, 192-231 in R. C. Moore, ed.. Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.

1957

• Bayer, F.M. 1957. Additional records of Western Atlantic octocorals. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 47: 379–390. BHL Reference page. 

1959

• Bayer, F.M. 1959. Octocorals from Surinam and the adjacent coasts of South America. Studies of the Fauna of Suriname and other Guyanas 3(6):43 pp., 21 figs.

1961

• Bayer, F.M. 1961. The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 12:373 pp., 27 pls., 101 figs. PDF URLReference page. 

1973

• Bayer, F.M. 1973. Colonial organization in octocorals. Pp. 69-93, 23 figs. in R. S. Boardman, A. H. Cheetham, & W A. Oliver, Jr., eds.. Animal colonies, Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg

1974

• Bayer, F.M. 1974. A new species of Trichogorgia and records of two other octocorals new to the Pelau Islands. Micronesica 10(2):257-271, 3 pis., 3 figs.

1976

• Bayer, F.M. & Muzik, K.M. 1976. New genera and species of the holaxonian family Chrysogorgiidae (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea). Zoologische Mededelingen 50(5):65-90, 7 pis, 10 figs.
• Bayer, F.M. & Muzik, K.M. 1976. A new solitary octocoral, Taiaroa tauhou gen. and sp. nov. (Coelenterara: Protoalcyonaria) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 6(4): 499-515, figs. 1-10.

1979

• Bayer, F.M. 1979. Distichogorgia sconsa, a new genus and species of chrysogorgiid octocoral (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) from the Blake Plateau off northern Florida. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92(4):876-882, 3 figs.

1981

• Bayer, F.M. 1981. Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnoses of new taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 94(3): 902-947. BHL Reference page. 

1983

• Bayer, F.M., Grasshoff, M. & Verseveldt, J. 1983. Illustrated trilingual glossary of morphological and anatomical terms applied to Octocorallia. E.J. Brill, Leiden, 75 pp., 218 figs.

1987

• Bayer, F.M. & Stefani, J. 1987. New and previously known taxa of isidid octocorals (Coelenterata:Gorgonacea), partly from antarctic waters. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 100(4): 937-991. BHL Reference page. 

1988

• Bayer, F.M. & Stefani, J. 1988. A new species of Chrysogorgia from New Caledonia, with descriptions of some other species from the western Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(2):257-279, 16 figs.

1991

• Bayer, F.M. 1981. Thelogorgia, a new genus of gorgonacean octocorals, with descriptions of four new species from the Western Atlantic. Bulletin of marine science. 49(1-2), 506-537. URL .Reference page. 

2001

• Bayer, F.M. & Macintyre, I.G. 2001. The mineral component of the axis and holdfast of some gorgonacean octocorals (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with special reference to the family Gorgoniidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 114(l):309-345.

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. 

2016

• Bayer, F.M. & Ofwegen, L.P. van 2016. The type specimens of Bebryce (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Plexauridae) re-examined, with emphasis on the sclerites. Zootaxa 4083(3): 301–358. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4083.3.1 . Full article (PDF)Reference page.