Story: Marine animals without backbones
Page 8. External links and sources
More links and websites
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Aquaculture, NIWA
This part of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) site includes useful information on New Zealand’s marine invertebrates.
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New Zealand Geographic – Bryozoans: A Field Identification Guide
An report by Abigail Smith and Dennis Gordon on bryozoans, published in New Zealand Geographic, in 2011.
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Seafriends
A comprehensive, well-illustrated site about New Zealand’s marine organisms.
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Tree of life web project
A fascinating site compiled by a worldwide network of biologists on the diversity of living and fossil organisms.
More suggestions and sources
- Batson, Peter. Deep New Zealand: blue water, black abyss. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2003.
- Crowe, Andrew. The life-size guide to the New Zealand beach: featuring the odd things that we get washed up on the sand. Auckland: Penguin, 2004.
- Hansford, Dave. ‘A voyage into inner space.’ Forest & Bird 310 (2003): 30–31.
- Morton, John. Seashore ecology of New Zealand and the Pacific. Auckland: David Bateman, 2004.
- Smith, Franz, and Dennis Gordon. ‘Sessile invertebrates.’ In The living reef: the ecology of New Zealand's rocky reefs, edited by Neil Andrew and Malcolm Francis. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2003.
- Tudge, Colin. The variety of life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
How to cite this page
Dennis Gordon and Maggy Wassilieff, Marine animals without backbones, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/13833/sources (accessed 10 June 2026).
Story by Dennis Gordon and Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.