Stephen D. Cairns

Stephen D. Cairns, U.S. Biologist.

• Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, United States of America

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 13 taxon names authored by Stephen D. Cairns

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

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. 
• Cairns, S.D. & Bayer, F.M. 2004. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Part 4: The genus Paracalyptrophora Kinoshita, 1908. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 117(1): 114-139. BHL 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. 

2007

• Cairns, S.D. 2007. Studies on western Atlantic Octocorallia (Gorgonacea: Primnoidae). Part 8: New records of Primnoidae from the New England and corner rise seamounts. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 120(3): 243–263. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2007)120[243:SOWAOG]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Cairns, S.D. 2007. Calcaxonian Octocorals (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the Eastern Pacific seamounts. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. 58(25): 511–541. PDF Reference page. 

2008

• Cairns, S.D., Bayer, F.M. 2008. A review of the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from Hawai’i and adjacent seamounts: the genus Narella Gray, 1870. Pacific Science. 62(1): 83–115. DOI: 10.2984/1534-6188(2008)62[83:AROTOC]2.0.CO;2 PDF Reference page. 

2009

• Cairns, S.D., Bayer, F.M. 2009. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 629: 1–79. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.629 Reference page. 

2011

• Cairns, S.D. 2011. A revision of the Primnoidae (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) from the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 634: 1–55. DOI: 10.5479/si.00810282.634 Reference page. 
• Cairns, S.D. 2011. Global Diversity of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Athecatae). PLoS ONE. 6(7): e21670. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021670 Reference page. 

2012

• Cairns, S.D. & Kitahara, M.V. 2012. An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary. ZooKeys, 227: 1–47. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.227.3612 . Reference page. 

2013

• Cairns, S.D. & Polonio, V. 2013. New records of deep-water Scleractinia off Argentina and the Falkland Islands. Zootaxa 3691(1): 58–86. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.1.2 Reference page. 

2014

• Lindner, A., Cairns, S.D. & Zibrowius, H. 2014. Leptohelia flexibilis gen. nov. et sp. nov., a remarkable deep-sea stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the southwest Pacific. Zootaxa 3900(4): 581–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.8 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. 2018. Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia: Calcaxonia) of the Okeanos Explorer expeditions (CAPSTONE) to the central Pacific. Zootaxa 4532(1): 1–43. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.1.1 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. 
• Cordeiro, R.T.S., Bayer, F.M. & Cairns, S.D. 2018. Callogorgia lucaya sp. nov., a new species of deep-sea Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the western Atlantic. Zootaxa 4441(3): 529–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.6 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. 

2021

• Filander, Z.N., Kitahara, M.V., Cairns, S.D., Sink, K.J. & Lombard, A.T. 2021. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from South Africa. ZooKeys 1066ː 1–198. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697 Reference page. 

2022

• Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Dahlgren, T.G., Amon, D.J., Cairns, S., Drennan, R., Durden, J.M., Eléaume, M.P., Hosie, A.M., Kremenetskaia, A., McQuaid, K., O’Hara, T.D., Rabone, M., Simon-Lledó, E., Smith, C.R., Watling, L., Wiklund, H. & Glover, A.G. 2022. Benthic megafauna of the western Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean. ZooKeys 1113ː 1–110. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1113.82172 Reference page. 

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