1978

• Shear, W.A. 1978. Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Tetrablemmidae and Pacullidae. American Museum Novitates 2650: 1-46. Reference page. 

1979

• Shear, W.A. 1979. Pahanga, a new tetrablemmid spider genus from Malaysia (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 4: 294-295. Reference page. 

2011

• Shear, W.A. 2011. Class Diplopoda de Blainville in Gervais, 1844. Pp 159–164 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Marek, P.E., Krejca, J.K. & Shear, W.A. 2016. A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida). ZooKeys 626: 1–43. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.626.9681 Reference page. 

• Shear, W.A. 2016. Redescription of the South African millipede Cylichnogaster lawrencei Verhoeff, 1937 and notes on the family Siphonotidae (Diplopoda, Polyzoniida). Zootaxa 4079(1): 119–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.1.8 . Full article (PDF)Reference page. 

• Shear, W.A. 2016. New Canadian records of Nemastoma bimaculatum (Fabricius), and a brief summary of introduced Eurasian harvestmen in North America (Arachnida, Opiliones). Zootaxa 4088(1): 139–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.1.7 . Full article (PDF)Reference page. 

• Shear, W.A., Ferreira, R.L., Iniesta, L.F.M. & Marek, P.E. 2016. A millipede missing link: Dobrodesmidae, a remarkable new polydesmidan millipede family from Brazil with supernumerary rings (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), and the establishment of a new suborder Dobrodesmidea. Zootaxa 2016(4178): 3–371. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2016.4178.390 . Reference page. 

• Shear, W.A. & Warfel, J.G. 2016. The harvestman genus Taracus Simon 1879, and the new genus Oskoron (Opiliones: Ischyropsalidoidea: Taracidae). Zootaxa 4180(1): 1–71. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4180.1.1 . Reference page. 

• Wynne, J.J. & Shear, W.A. 2016. A new millipede, Austrotyla awishoshola n. sp., (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Conotylidae) from New Mexico, USA, and the importance of cave moss gardens as refugial habitats. Zootaxa 4084(2): 285–292. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.2.8 .Reference page. 

2017

• Shear, W.A., Nosler, P. & Marek, P.E. 2017. The identity of Amplaria nazinta (Chamberlin, 1910): a century-old millipede mystery resolved (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae). Zootaxa 4311(2): 233–240. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.4 . Reference page. 

2018

• Khramov, A. V., Shear, W. A., Mercurio, R. and Kopylov, D. 2018. The first Permian centipedes from Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (3), 2018: 549-555 DOI: 10.4202/app.00482.2018

• Shear, W.A. 2018. Taracus aspenae, n. sp. (Opiliones: Taracidae) a new long-jawed harvestman from a cave in northeastern Oregon, U.S.A. Zootaxa 4413(3): 524–530. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.3.6 Reference page. 

• Shear, W.A. 2018. The centipede family Anopsobiidae new to North America, with the description of a new genus and species and notes on the Henicopidae of North America and the Anopsobiidae of the Northern Hemisphere (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha). Zootaxa 4422(2): 259–283. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.6 Reference page. 

• Shear, W.A. & Peck, S.B. 2018. Cyrtodesmus baerti, n. sp., a cryptic millipede from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Cyrtodesmidae). Zootaxa 4388(3): 417–424. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.7 Reference page.