Compagno, L.J.V. & Heemstra, P.C. 2007. Electrolux addisoni, a new genus and species of electric ray from the east coast of South Africa (Rajiformes: Torpedinoidei: Narkidae), with a review of torpedinoid taxonomy. Smithiana Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity, Bulletin No. 7: 15-49.
Iwatsuki, Y. & Heemstra, P.C. 2007. A new gerreid fish species and redescription of Gerres maldivensis Regan, 1902 from the Indian Ocean (Perciformes: Gerreidae). Copeia 2007(1): 85-92.
Heemstra, P.C., Hissmann, K., Fricke, H., Smale, M.J. and Schauer, J. 2006. Fishes of the deep demersal habitat at Ngazidja (Grand Comoro) Island, Western Indian Ocean. South African Journal of Science, 102: 444-460.
Heemstra, P.C., Fricke, H., Hissmann, K., Schauer, J., Smale, M. and Sink, K. 2006. Interactions of fishes with particular reference to coelacanths in the canyons at Sodwana Bay and the St Lucia Marine Protected Area of South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 102: 461--465.
Andrew, T.G., T. Hecht, P.C. Heemstra and J.R.E. Lutjeharms. 1995. Fishes of the Tristan da Cunha Group and Gough Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol., No. 63: 1-41.
Griffiths, M.H. and P.C. Heemstra. 1995. A contribution to the taxonomy of the marine fish genus Argyrosomus (Perciformes: Sciaenidae), with descriptions of two new species from southern Africa. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol., No. 65: 1-40.
Heemstra, P.C. 1991. A taxonomic revision of the eastern Atlantic groupers (Pisces: Serranidae). Bol. Mus. Mun. Funchal, 43 (226): 5-71.
Heemstra, P.C. and L.J.V. Compagno. 1989. Uterine cannibalism and placental viviparity in the coelacanth? A skeptical view. S. Afr. J. Sci., 85: 485-486.
Heemstra, P.C. and P.H. Greenwood. 1992. New observations on the visceral anatomy of the late-term fetuses of the living coelacanth fish and the oophagy controversy. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (1992), 249: 49-55.
Heemstra, P.C. and T. Hecht. 1986. Dinopercidae, a new family for the percoid marine fish genera Dinoperca Boulenger and Centrarchops Fowler (Pisces: Perciformes). Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol., 51: 1-20.
Smith, M.M. and P.C. Heemstra (editors). 1986. Smiths' Sea Fishes. Macmillan, Johannesburg. 1047 pp. + 144 pls. (P.C. Heemstra is author or co-author of 71 family accounts.)