NIWA Biodiversity Memoirs
The NIWA Biodiversity Memoir (NBM) series comprises technical works that describe New Zealand’s invertebrate marine life—sponges, corals, hydroids, worms, molluscs, crustaceans, sea stars and lesser-known groups. They are beautifully presented, stand-alone monographs that reveal the history and diversity of the subject groups, with new species names and revisionary work that is relevant globally.
These important publications are indispensable references for academic researchers and postgraduate students interested in marine systematics and the conservation of New Zealand’s unique aquatic biodiversity, much of which is found nowhere else in the world.
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All our NIWA Biodiversity Memoirs (NBM) are available for purchase (hard copy) or free download (PDF) below.
| Code | Authors |
Date |
Title | Keywords | Download PDF - free | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NBM021 | Clark, H.E.S. | 1964 | The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 3. Asteroidea. | Antarctica, Echinodermata, Sea stars, asteroids, starfish, Systematics, taxonomy |
 New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 21 (PDF, 17 MB, 120 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($29) |
| NBM017 | Skerman, T.M. (Ed.) | 1964 | Studies of a southern fiord. | Milford Sound, Fiordland, bathymetry, hydrology, sedimentation, microbiology, Foraminifera, sulphur, pollen, benthic community, Mollusca, Brachiopoda, Polychaeta, Echinodermata, Diatoms, temperature, salinity |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 17 (PDF, 18 MB, 101 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM010 | Burling, R.W. | 1964 | Hydrology of circumpolar waters south of New Zealand. | Antarctic, Subantarctic, oceanography, currents, fronts, temperature, salinity, seasonal variation |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 10 (PDF, 13 MB, 66 p.) |
Out of print |
| NBM025 | Hedley, R.H.; Hurdle, C.M.; Burdett, I.D.J. | 1965 | A foraminiferal fauna from the western continental shelf, North Island, New Zealand. | Foraminifera, Protozoa, benthic, plankton, taxonomy |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 25 (PDF, 8 MB, 46 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM027 | Tattersall, O.S.; Edmonds, S.J. | 1965 | The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 4. Mysidacea. Sipunculoidea. | Antarctica, mysids, worms, Sipuncula, Arthropoda, Systematics, taxonomy |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 27 (PDF, 6 MB, 35 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM012 | Garner, D.M.; Ridgway, N.M. | 1965 | Hydrology of New Zealand offshore waters. | offshore, oceanography, currents, temperature, salinity, seasonal variation |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 12 (PDF, 14 MB, 62 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM011 | Brodie, J.W. | 1965 | Bathymetry of the New Zealand region. | charts, features, Geology, seafloor, sedimentation |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 11 (PDF, 10 MB, 54 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM035 | Griffin, D.J.G. | 1966 | The marine fauna of New Zealand: Spider crabs, family Majidae (Crustacea, Brachyura). | Arthropoda, crab, Systematics, majids, taxonomy |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 35 (PDF, 25 MB, 111 p.) |
Out of print |
| NBM030 | Krause, D.C. | 1966 | Geology and geomagnetism of the Bounty region east of the South Island, New Zealand. | Bathymetric profile, magnetic profile, canyons, geomagnetic, magnetometer, anomalies |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 30 (PDF, 6 MB, 32 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM028 | Pantin, H.M. | 1966 | Sedimentation in Hawke Bay. | Hawke's Bay, Geology, authigenic minerals, sediments, topography, sedimentology |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 28 (PDF, 13 MB, 70 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM048 | Garner, D.M. | 1967 | Hydrology of the south-east Tasman Sea. | currents, oceanography, salinity, temperature |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 48 (PDF, 8 MB, 40 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM041 | Krause, D.C. | 1967 | Bathymetry and geologic structure of the north-western Tasman Sea-Coral Sea-South Solomon Sea area of the South-western Pacific Ocean. | Geology, Sediment, sedimentology, rock, seafloor morphology, submarine features |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 41 (PDF, 10 MB, 48 p.) |
Out of print |
| NBM040 | McDougall, J.C.; Brodie, J.W. | 1967 | Sediments of the western shelf, North Island, New Zealand. | Geology, minerals, topography, sedimentology |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 40 (PDF, 13 MB, 54 p.) |
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| NBM039 | Garner, D.M. | 1967 | Hydrology of the southern Hikurangi Trench region. | currents, oceanography, salinity, temperature, salinity |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 39 (PDF, 5 MB, 33 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM038 | Hedley, R.H.; Hurdle, C.M.; Burdett, I.D.J. | 1967 | The marine fauna of New Zealand: Intertidal Foraminifera of the Corallina officinalis zone. | Forams, Protozoa, Systematics, calcareous algae, taxonomy |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 38 (PDF, 17 MB, 86 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM036 | Houtman, T.J. | 1967 | Water masses and fronts in the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand. | oceanography, currents, Antarctica, circulation, Bathythermograph, temperature, salinity |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 36 (PDF, 9 MB, 39 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM044 | Eade, J.V. | 1967 | A checklist of Recent New Zealand Foraminifera. | Forams, Protozoa, Systematics, taxonomy |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 44 (PDF, 11 MB, 70 p.) |
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| NBM043 | Squires, D.F.; Keyes, I.W. | 1967 | The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinian corals. | Scleractinia, Cnidaria, hard coral, cup coral, stony coral, taxonomy |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43 (PDF, 9 MB, 54 p.) |
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| NBM033 | Cullen, D.J. | 1967 | The submarine geology of Foveaux Strait. | Geomorphology, Sediment, petrology, Bluff |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 33 (PDF, 16 MB, 67 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |
| NBM032 | Bullivant, J.S.; Dearborn, J.H. | 1967 | The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 5. General accounts, station lists, and benthic ecology. | Antarctica, ecology, fauna, Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, TAE, Endeavour, stations |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 32 (PDF, 18 MB, 77 p.) |
Buy hard copy ($25) |