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 NBM056 | Authors Ridgway, N.M. | Date | Title Hydrology of the southern Kermadec Trench region. | Keywords currents, salinity, temperature, Oceanography, Circulation | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 56 (PDF, 7MB, 28p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM055 | Authors Heath, R.A. | Date | Title Oceanic circulation off the east coast of New Zealand. | Keywords currents, salinity, temperature, topography, Subtropical Convergence, Oceanography | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 55 (PDF, 16MB, 80p.) | Price |
| Code Sort ascending NBM054 | Authors Bradford, J.M. | Date | Title Systematics and ecology of New Zealand central east coast plankton sampled at Kaikoura. | Keywords Copepoda, copepods, phytoplankton, Taxonomy, nutrients, primary production | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 54 (PDF, 18MB, 87p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($26) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM053 | Authors Jillett, J.B. | Date | Title Zooplankton and hydrology of Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. | Keywords Copepoda, copepods, Euphausiacea, medusae, Nyctiphanes, larvae, nauplii, plutei, zoeae, turbidity, salinity, temperature, currents | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 53 (PDF, 27MB, 103p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($30) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM052 | Authors Pawson, D.L. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea). | Keywords Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, sea cucumber, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 52 (PDF, 13MB, 69p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM051 | Authors Bergquist, P.R. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae. Part 2. Axinellida and Halichondrida. | Keywords Sponge, systematics, demosponge, Axinella, Halichondrida, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 51 (PDF, 13MB, 85p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($26) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM050 | Authors Summerhayes, C.P. | Date | Title Marine geology of the New Zealand subantarctic sea floor. | Keywords Sediment, seafloor morphology, rocks, submarine features | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 50 (PDF, 20MB, 92p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM049 | Authors Fry, W.G.; Hedgpeth, J.W. | Date | Title The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 7. Pyconogonida, 1: Colossendeidae, Pycnogonidae, Endeidae, Ammotheidae. | Keywords Antarctica, Arthropoda, Sea Spider, Chelicerata, Pantopoda, Pycnogonid, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 49 (PDF, 34MB, 139p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($32) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM048 | Authors Garner, D.M. | Date | Title Hydrology of the south-east Tasman Sea. | Keywords currents, Oceanography, salinity, temperature | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 48 (PDF, 8MB, 40p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM047 | Authors McKnight, D.G. | Date | Title An outline distribution of the New Zealand shelf fauna. Benthos survey, station list, and distribution of the Echinoidea. | Keywords Echinodermata, sea urchin, checklist | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 47 (PDF, 24MB, 89p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM046 | Authors Kennett, J.P. | Date | Title The fauna of the Ross Sea. Part 6. Ecology and distribution of Foraminifera. | Keywords Antarctica, Forams, Protozoa, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 46 (PDF, 11MB, 46p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM045 | Authors Lewis, K.B. | Date | Title A key to the Recent genera of the Foraminiferida. | Keywords Forams, Protozoa, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 45 (PDF, 11MB, 88p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM044 | Authors Eade, J.V. | Date | Title A checklist of Recent New Zealand Foraminifera. | Keywords Forams, Protozoa, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 44 (PDF, 11MB, 70p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM043 | Authors Squires, D.F.; Keyes, I.W. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinian corals. | Keywords Scleractinia, Cnidaria, hard coral, cup coral, stony coral, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43 (PDF, 9MB, 54p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM042 | Authors Pawson, D.L. | Date | Title The echinozoan fauna of the New Zealand subantarctic islands, Macquarie Island, and the Chatham Rise. | Keywords Echinodermata, Echinoidea, sea urchin, Holothuroidea, sea cucumber, checklist, systematics, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 42 (PDF, 7MB, 33p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM041 | Authors Krause, D.C. | Date | Title Bathymetry and geologic structure of the north-western Tasman Sea-Coral Sea-South Solomon Sea area of the South-western Pacific Ocean. | Keywords geology, Sediment, sedimentology, rock, seafloor morphology, submarine features | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 41 (PDF, 10MB, 48p.) | Price |
| Code Sort ascending NBM040 | Authors McDougall, J.C.; Brodie, J.W. | Date | Title Sediments of the western shelf, North Island, New Zealand. | Keywords geology, minerals, topography, sedimentology | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 40 (PDF, 13MB, 54p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM039 | Authors Garner, D.M. | Date | Title Hydrology of the southern Hikurangi Trench region. | Keywords currents, Oceanography, salinity, temperature, salinity | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 39 (PDF, 5MB, 33p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM038 | Authors Hedley, R.H.; Hurdle, C.M.; Burdett, I.D.J. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Intertidal Foraminifera of the Corallina officinalis zone. | Keywords Forams, Protozoa, systematics, calcareous algae, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 38 (PDF, 17MB, 86p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($25) |
| Code Sort ascending NBM037 | Authors Bergquist, P.R. | Date | Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae. Part 1. (Tetractinomorpha and Lithistida). | Keywords Sponge, systematics, Hadromerida, Homosclerophorida, Choristida, Lithistid, Epipolasida, Taxonomy | Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 37 (PDF, 19MB, 105p.) | Price Buy hard copy ($26) |