This is an abstract of a paper, ‘New and rare
tropical and subtropical fishes from northern New
Zealand’ by Malcolm P. Francis and others. It
discusses sightings of rare fish in the late 1990s.
It links to the full paper (PDF format).
More suggestions and sources
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Paul, Larry. New Zealand fishes:
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Auckland: Reed, 2000.
Paul, Larry, and John Moreland. Handbook of
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