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.