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NIWA Biodiversity Memoirs for purchase

The NIWA Biodiversity Memoirs are comprehensive, definitive, illustrated reference works that capture the rigorous, peer-reviewed scientific study of New Zealand’s distinctive marine fauna and flora.

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 NBM125 Authors Sort descending Ahyong, S.T. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda). Keywords Arthropoda, Stomatopoda, Decapoda, Taxonomy Download PDF - free NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 125 (PDF, 5MB, 111p.) Price Buy hard copy ($49)
Code NBM123 Authors Sort descending Ahyong, S.T. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: King crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustace: Decapoda: Lithodidae). Keywords Arthropoda, Crustacea, crab, Decapoda, Taxonomy Download PDF - free NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 123 (PDF, 14MB, 194p.) Price Buy hard copy ($65)
Code NBM001 Authors Sort descending Anon Date Title Bibliography of New Zealand Oceanography 1949-1953. Keywords Reference list, NZOI, DSIR, oceanographers, new zealand Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 1 (PDF, 8MB, 19p.) Price
Code NBM062 Authors Sort descending 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 NBM022 Authors Sort descending Bennett, E.W. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Crustacea: Brachyura. Keywords Arthropoda, crabs, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 22 (PDF, 38MB, 120p.) Price Buy hard copy ($29)
Code NBM051 Authors Sort descending 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 NBM107 Authors Sort descending Bergquist, P.R. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera: Demospongiae part 5. Dendroceratida and Halisarcida. Keywords Sponge, demosponge, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 107 (PDF, 8MB, 53p.) Price Buy hard copy ($40)
Code NBM037 Authors Sort descending 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)
Code NBM096 Authors Sort descending Bergquist, P.R.; Fromont, P.J. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 (Poecilosclerida). Keywords Sponge, demosponge, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 96 (PDF, 34MB, 197p.) Price Buy hard copy ($55)
Code NBM013 Authors Sort descending Bergquist, P.R.; Pike, R.B.; Hurley, D.E.; Ralph, P.M. Date Title Biological results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 5. Porifera: Demospongiae; Porifera: Keratosa; Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae; Crustacea Isopoda: Serolidae; Hydroida. Keywords Porifera, Sponge, Arthropoda, Crustacea, Isopoda, slater, Hydrozoa, hydroid, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 13 (PDF, 20MB, 73p.) Price Buy hard copy ($25)
Code NBM087 Authors Sort descending Bergquist, P.R.; Warne, K.P. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae. Part 3. (Haplosclerida and Nepheliospongida). Keywords Sponge, demosponge, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 87 (PDF, 11MB, 77p.) Price Buy hard copy ($25)
Code NBM065 Authors Sort descending 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 NBM113 Authors Sort descending Bouillon, J.; Barnett, T.J. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Hydromedusae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Keywords Cnidaria, hydroids, Jellyfish, jellies, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 113 (PDF, 31MB, 136p.) Price Buy hard copy ($50)
Code NBM111 Authors Sort descending Bradford-Grieve, J.M. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic calanoid Copepoda: Bathypontiidae, Arietellidae, Augaptilidae, Heterorhabdidae, Lucicutiidae, Metridinidae, Phyllopodidae, Centropagidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Temoridae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae, Sulcanidae, Acartiidae, Tortanidae. Keywords Zooplankton, Arthropoda, copepods, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 111 (PDF, 51MB, 268p.) Price Buy hard copy ($95)
Code NBM102 Authors Sort descending Bradford-Grieve, J.M. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic calanoid Copepoda. Families Megacalanidae, Calanidae, Paracalanidae, Mecynoceridae, Eucalanidae, Spinocalanidae, Clausocalanidae. Keywords Zooplankton, Arthropoda, copepods, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 102 (PDF, 51MB, 160p.) Price
Code NBM054 Authors Sort descending 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 NBM067 Authors Sort descending 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 NBM090 Authors Sort descending Bradford, J.M.; Haakonssen, L.; Jillett, J.B. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic calanoid copepods: Families Euchaetidae, Phaennidae, Scolecithricidae, Diaixidae, and Tharybidae. Keywords Zooplankton, Arthropoda, Copepoda, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 90 (PDF, 28MB, 150p.) Price Buy hard copy ($44)
Code NBM086 Authors Sort descending Bradford, J.M.; Jillett, J.B. Date Title The marine fauna of New Zealand: Pelagic calanoid copepods: Family Aetidiidae. Keywords Zooplankton, Arthropoda, Copepoda, systematics, Taxonomy Download PDF - free New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 86 (PDF, 23MB, 102p.) Price Buy hard copy ($30)
Code NBM059 Authors Sort descending 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)