| The shallow-water Octocorallia of the West Indian region FM Bayer Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 12 (1), 1-373, 1961 | 734 | 1961 |
| Key to the genera of Octocorallia exclusive of Pennatulacea (Coelenterata: Anthozoa), with diagnosis of new taxa FM Bayer Proceedings of the biological society of Washington, 1981 | 399 | 1981 |
| Illustrated trilingual glossary of morphological and anatomical terms applied to Octocorallia FM Bayer, M Grasshoff, J Verseveldt Brill Archive, 1983 | 320 | 1983 |
| Octocorallia FM Bayer Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part F. Coelenterata. University of …, 1956 | 263 | 1956 |
| Phylogenetic relationships within the Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) based on nuclear 18S rRNA sequences EA Berntson, FM Bayer, AG McArthur, SC France Marine Biology 138, 235-246, 2001 | 132 | 2001 |
| Contributions to the nomenclature, systematics, and morphology of the Octocorallia FM Bayer Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 1955 | 93 | 1955 |
| Colonial organization in octocorals FM Bayer Animal colonies, 1973 | 82 | 1973 |
| A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Primnoidae (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) SD Cairns, FM Bayer | 81 | 2009 |
| Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part F: Coelenterata FM Bayer, H Boschma, HJ Harrington, D Hill, LH Hyman, M Lecompte, ... Geological Society of America/University of Kansas Press, 1956 | 73 | 1956 |
| A review of the genus Primnoa (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae), with the description of two new species SD Cairns, FM Bayer Bulletin of Marine Science 77 (2), 225-256, 2005 | 72 | 2005 |
| Primnoidae (Gorgonacea) de Nouvelle-Calédonie FM Bayer, J Stefani | 68 | 1988 |
| Status of knowledge of octocorals of world seas FM Bayer Seminários de Biologia Marinha, Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Rio de Janeiro, 1981 | 68 | 1981 |
| New and unusual mollusks collected by R/V John Elliott Pillsbury and R/V Gerda in the tropical western Atlantic FM Bayer University of Miami Press, 1971 | 66 | 1971 |
| Descriptions and redescriptions of the Hawaiian octocorals collected by the US Fish Commission steamer" Albatross"(2. Gorgonacea: Scleraxonia) FM Bayer University of Hawai'i Press, 1956 | 62 | 1956 |
| The mineral component of the axis and holdfast of some gorgonacean octocorals (Coelenteratea: Anthozoa), with specieal reference to the family Gorgoniidae FM Bayer, IG Macintyre Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 2001 | 59 | 2001 |
| The genus group taxa of the family Ellisellidae, with clarification of the genera established by JE Gray (Cnidaria; Octocorallia) FM Bayer, M Grasshoff | 59 | 1994 |
| Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii RW Grigg, FM Bayer | 53 | 1976 |
| Revision of the genera Bellonella, Eleutherobia, Nidalia and Nidaliopsis (Octocorallia: Alcyoniidae and Nidalliidae), with descriptions of two new genera J Verseveldt, FM Bayer Zoologische Verhandelingen 245 (1), 1-131, 1988 | 51 | 1988 |
| Octocorallia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico SD Cairns, FM Bayer Gulf of Mexico–origins, waters, and biota 1, 321-331, 2009 | 50 | 2009 |
| A new genus of the scleraxonian family Coralliidae (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea). FM Bayer, SD Cairns | 50 | 2003 |
