Coasts

This week we re-visit a recent blog featuring some new nematode worm species discovered at Hataitai beach in Wellington.

Where in New Zealand might you find a witchy finger sponge or a pie-crust crab? The answer will be found in New Zealand’s first series of electronic identification guides for marine invertebrates.

Some of our colleagues have just published an article on a new species of tanaid from New Zealand that was found living inside tiny gastropod shells!

This iridescent snail from the freezing cold, deep waters of Antarctica is Falsimargarita gemma (E. A. Smith, 1915).

This stunning creature is a solitary stony cup coral species, Stephanocyathus spiniger (Marenzeller, 1888).

Another colossal squid is under examination in Wellington, but this one could fit in the palm of your hand.

This week we introduce to you the deepest parasite ever recorded, a nematode of the genus Trophomera Rubtzov & Platonova 1974.

This week we look at Telopathes (black corals).

A team of marine geoscientists from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research begins mapping the submarine landscape of Kapiti Island and Coast on Friday, 5 June.

This week’s Critters include a large branching hydroid, to which is attached two curious, and little-known, invertebrates.

The toxic grey side-gilled seaslug.