Story: Marine animals without backbones

More links and websites

• Aquaculture, NIWA

  This part of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) site includes useful information on New Zealand’s marine invertebrates.

• 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.

• Seafriends

  A comprehensive, well-illustrated site about New Zealand’s marine organisms.

• 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.