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A Checklist of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Gulf of Mexico, with the Description of a New Species

A Late Pleistocene coastal ecosystem in French Guiana was hyperdiverse relative to today

scientific article published in 2024

A Revision of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Filifera) from Alaska and Adjacent Waters

scientific article

A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) based on mitochondrial CO1 sequence data

scientific article published in 2010

A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia)

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A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia)

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A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia)

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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

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A new alcyonacean octocoral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Octocorallia) from Chilean fjords

scientific article (publication date: 17 February 2015)

A new coral species introduced into the Atlantic Ocean - Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg 1834) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia): An invasive threat?

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A new genus and species of golden coral (Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Chrysogorgiidae) from the Northwest Atlantic

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A phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) with analyses of character evolution and a key to the genera and subgenera.

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A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species

scientific article (publication date: 15 July 2005)

A revision of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galapagos and Cocos Islands

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A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent Waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae

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A revision of the genus Radicipes Stearns, 1883 (Anthozoa: Octocorallia: Chrysogorgiidae)

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

A revision of the genus Thouarella Gray, 1870 (Octocorallia: Primnoidae), including an illustrated dichotomous key, a new species description, and comments on Plumarella Gray, 1870 and Dasystenella, Versluys, 1906

scientific article (publication date: 14 January 2013)

A unique skeletal microstructure of the deep-sea micrabaciid scleractinian corals

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An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary

scientific article published on 5 October 2012

An illustrated key to the species of the genus Narella (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Primnoidae)

scientific article published in 2019

Callogorgia lucaya sp. nov., a new species of deep-sea Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the western Atlantic

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Caryophylliidae (Scleractinia) from the Colombian Caribbean

scientific article (publication date: 12 October 2009)

Catalog of the type specimens of stony corals (Milleporidae, Stylasteridae, Scleractinia) in the National Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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Comparing Molecular Variation to Morphological Species Designations in the Deep-Sea Coral Narella Reveals New Insights into Seamount Coral Ranges

scientific article published on September 27, 2012

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

scientific article published in 2018

Corrigendum: The Coral Trait Database, a curated database of trait information for coral species from the global oceans

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Deep-Water Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Part 1: Suborder Calcaxonia

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Deltocyathiidae, an early-diverging family of Robust corals (Anthozoa, Scleractinia)

article published in 2012

Diversity and Distribution of Octocorallia

From offshore to onshore: multiple origins of shallow-water corals from deep-sea ancestors

scientific article (publication date: 18 June 2008)

Global Diversity of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Athecatae)

scientific article published on July 22, 2011

Leptohelia flexibilis gen. nov. et sp. nov., a remarkable deep-sea stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the southwest Pacific

scientific article (publication date: 24 December 2014)

New Zealand Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea). Part 1. Genera Narella, Narelloides, Metanarella, Calyptrophora, and Helicoprimnoa

article by Stephen D. Cairns published 2012 in NIWA biodiversity memoir

New azooxanthellate genus of Scleractinia (Flabellidae) from the Australian Cenozoic

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New primnoid genus and species (Alcyonacea: Primnoidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 125 no. 2, August 2012

New records of deep-water Scleractinia off Argentina and the Falkland Islands

scientific article (publication date: 18 July 2013)

New records of the genus Callogorgia (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) in the western Atlantic, including the description of a new species

scholarly article in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol. 95 no. 5, December 2014

Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) of the Okeanos Explorer expeditions (CAPSTONE) to the central Pacific

scientific article published on 16 December 2018

Primnoidae (Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) from the Emperor Seamounts, with Notes on Callogorgia elegans (Gray, 1870)

article by Stephen D. Cairns et al published January 2018 in Pacific Science

Re-synonymization of the genus Deltocyathoides with Peponocyathus (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Turbinoliidae)

scientific article published in 2023

Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific

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Southern hemisphere deep-water stylasterid corals including a new species, Errinalabrosa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae), with notes on some symbiotic scalpellids (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Scalpellidae)

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Stony Corals (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Scleractinia) of Carrie Bow Cay, Belize

Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Gorgonacea: Primnoidae). Part 8: New records of Primnoidae from the New England and Corner Rise Seamounts

scholarly article in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 120 no. 3, October 2007

Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Filifera) from South Africa

scientific article (publication date: 18 July 2013)

The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Primnoid octocorals (Anthozoa, Alcyonacea) - Part 2. Primnoella, Callozostron, Metafannyella, Callogorgia, Fanellia and other genera

The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida)

scholarly article published by Stephen D. Cairns in 1991

The ancient evolutionary origins of Scleractinia revealed by azooxanthellate corals

scientific article (publication date: 28 October 2011)

The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis

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The invasion of the azooxanthellate coral Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) throughout the world: history, pathways and vectors

article by Joel Creed et al published 30 September 2016 in Biological Invasions

The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa)

scholarly article published by Stephen D. Cairns in 1995