Bannister, R.J., Battershill, C.N., and de Nys, R. (2012) Suspended sediment grain size and mineralogy across the continental shelf of the Great Barrier Reef: impacts on the physiology of a coral reef sponge. Continental Shelf Research, 32. pp. 86-95.

Bannister, Raymond, Hoogenboom, Mia, Anthony, Kenneth R. N., Battershill, Chris, Whalan, Stephen, Webster, Nicole, and De Nys, Rocky (2011) Incongruence between the distribution of a common coral reef sponge and photosynthesis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 423. pp. 95-100.

Bannister, R.J., Battershill, C.N., and de Nys, R. (2010) Demographic variability and long-term change in a coral reef sponge along a cross-shelf gradient of the Great Barrier Reef. Marine and Freshwater Research, 61 (4). pp. 389-396.

Bannister, Raymond (2008) The ecology and feeding biology of the sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile. PhD thesis, James Cook University.