Frederick M. Bayer

Frederick Merkle Bayer (1921–2007), U.S. cnidariologist.

National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 23 taxon names authored by Frederick M. Bayer

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 1 eponym of Frederick M. Bayer

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1948

• Clark, A.H. & Bayer, F.M. 1948. Some echinoderms from Biak, Schouten Islands (New Guinea). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 38: 143-144. BHL.

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. 

1958

• Bayer, F.M. 1958. Les Octocoralliaires plexaurides des côtes occidentales d'Amérique. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 16 (2), 41–56. 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. 

1962

• Bayer, F.B. 1962. A new species of Cephalodiscus (Hemichordata: Pterobranchia), the first record from the tropical western Atlantic. Bulletin of Marine Science. 12 (2): 306-312.

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.
• Bayer, F.M. 1979. Adelogorgia telones, a new species of gorgonacean coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 91(4): 1026–1036. BHL Reference page. 

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. 
• Bayer, F.M. 1981. Bibliography of Octocorallia 1469-1977. Seminários de Biologia Marinha, Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Rio de Janeiro : 29-102. hdl: 10088/1239 PDF

1982

• Bayer, F.M. 1982. Some new and old species of the primnoid genus Callogorgia Gray, with a revalidation of the related genus Fanellia Gray (Coelenterata: Anthozoa). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 95(1): 116–160. 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 (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea) from New Caledonia, with descriptions of some other species from the western Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 101(2): 257–279. BHL Reference page. 

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. 

1994

• Bayer, F.M. 1994. A new species of the gorgonacean genus Bebryce (Coelenterata: Octocorallia) from Papua-New Guinea. Bulletin of marine science. 54(2): 546-553. hdl: 10088/994 Reference page. 

1996

• Bayer, F.M. 1996. The Antarctic genus Callozostron and its relationship to Primnoella (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 109(1): 150–203. BHL 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. 
• 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. 

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. 

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. 

2018

• 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

• Matsumoto, A.K., van Ofwegen, L.P., Bayer, F.M. 2019. A revision of the genus Calcigorgia (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Acanthogorgiidae) with the description of three new species. Zootaxa. 4571: 1–27. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.1.1 Reference page. 

Links

• Bernstein, A. 2007. Frederick M. Bayer; Smithsonian Deep-Sea Biologist. The Washington Post. [Obituary]