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.
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| Code Sort ascending NBM076 | Authors Dawson, E.W. | Date | Title Catalogue of type and figured specimens in the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute. | Keywords holotype, paratype, Taxonomy, systematics, Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata, Cnidaria, Annelida, Sipunculida, Arthropoda, Mollusca, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Echinodermata, Chordata | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 76 (PDF, 3MB, 110p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM075 | Authors Ridgway, N.M. | Date | Title Hydrology of the Bounty Islands region. | Keywords currents, salinity, temperature, Oceanography, Circulation | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 75 (PDF, 3MB, 27p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM074 | Authors Irwin, J. | Date | Title Checklist of New Zealand lakes. | Keywords Freshwater, altitude, bibliography, tectonic basins, glacial lakes, volcanic lakes | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 74 (PDF, 18MB, 161p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($45) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM073 | Authors Ridgway, N.M.; Heath, R.A. 1975. | Date | Title Hydrology of the Kermadec Islands region. | Keywords currents, salinity, temperature, Oceanography, Circulation | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 73 (PDF, 5MB, 28p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM072 | Authors Heath, R.A. | Date | Title Oceanic circulation and hydrology off the southern half of South Island, New Zealand. | Keywords currents, salinity, temperature, Oceanography | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 72 (PDF, 5MB, 36p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM071 | Authors Glasby, G.P.; Hubred, G.L. | Date | Title Comprehensive bibliography of marine manganese nodules. | Keywords Reference list, geology | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 71 (PDF, 11MB, 55p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM070 | Authors Luckens, P.A. | Date | Title Settlement and succession on rocky shores at Auckland, North Island, New Zealand. | Keywords Intertidal, ecology, fauna, zonation, algae, seaweed, Mollusca, Polychaeta, Cirripedia, barnacles, worms, mussels | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 70 (PDF, 19MB, 64p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM069 | Authors Foster, B.A. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica). | Keywords Arthropoda, Cirripedia, Maxillopoda, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 69 (PDF, 112MB, 160p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($45) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM068 | Authors Vine, P.J. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae). | Keywords Annelida, worm, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 68 (PDF, 38MB, 68p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM067 | Authors Bradford, J.M. | Date | Title New parasitic Choniostomatidae (Copepoda) mainly from Antarctic and subantarctic Ostracoda. | Keywords Arthropoda, Crustacea, copepods, ostracods, systematics, parasitisim, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 67 (PDF, 20MB, 36p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM066 | Authors Grant, R.A | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Isididae (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea) from New Zealand and the Antarctic. | Keywords Cnidaria, bamboo coral, Alcyonacea, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 65 (PDF, 56MB, 56p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM065 | Authors Beu, A.G. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: The molluscan genera Cymatona and Fusitriton (Gastropoda, family Cymatiidae). | Keywords Mollusca, snails, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 65 (PDF, 31MB, 44p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM064 | Authors Lewis, V.J. | Date | Title Bibliography of New Zealand submarine geology 1866–1969. | Keywords Reference list, NZOI, DSIR, geologists | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 64 (PDF, 27MB, 32p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM063 | Authors Hurley, D.E.; Jansen, K.P. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Family Sphaeromatidae (Crustacea Isopoda: Flabellifera). | Keywords Arthropoda, Crustacea, isopods, slaters, Taxonomy, systematics | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 63 (PDF, 84MB, 95p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($28) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM062 | Authors Barnard, J.L. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Algae-living littoral Gammaridea (Crustacea Amphipoda). | Keywords Arthropoda, Crustacea, amphipods, sandhoppers, seaweed, Taxonomy, systematics | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 62 (PDF, 22MB, 216p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($59) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM061 | Authors McCann, C.; McKnight, D.G. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Macrourid fishes (Pisces: Gadida). | Keywords Fish, Chordata, rattails, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 61 (PDF, 10MB, 91p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($27) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM060 | Authors Pantin, H.M. | Date | Title Internal structure in marine shelf, slope, and abyssal sediments east of New Zealand. | Keywords sedimentation, organic, inorganic, geology, cores | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 60 (PDF, 11MB, 53p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM059 | Authors Bradford, J.M.; Jones, N.S. | Date | Title The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 8. Pelagic Copepoda. Cumacea. | Keywords Copepoda, copepods, Zooplankton, Cumacea, comma shrimp, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 59 (PDF, 8MB, 44p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM058 | Authors Garner, D.M. | Date | Title Hydrological studies in the New Zealand region 1966 and 1967. Oceanic hydrology north-west of New Zealand. Hydrology of the north-east Tasman Sea. | Keywords currents, salinity, temperature, Oceanography, Circulation, Antarctic Intermediate Water | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 58 (PDF, 8MB, 49p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM057 | Authors Uttley, G.H.; Bullivant, J.S. | Date | Title Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 7. Bryozoa Cheilostomata. | Keywords Bryozoa, Cheilostomata, Cheilostomatida, moss animal, sea lace, systematics, Taxonomy, CIE | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 57 (PDF, 11MB, 59p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |