The resources below are useful for identifying animals found on intertidal or shallow subtidal seaweeds in northeastern New Zealand.

Gastropods

Marshall, B. A. 1998. A review of the Recent Trochini of New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Molluscan Research 19: 73-106.

Marshall, B. A. 1998. The New Zealand Recent species of Cantharidus Montfort, 1810 and Micrelenchus Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Molluscan Research 19: 107-156.

Powell, A. W. B. 1979. New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells. Collins, Auckland. 500 pp.

Spencer, H. G., and Willan, R. C. 1995. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Index to the Fauna: 3. Mollusca. NIWA Memoir 105. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington. 125 pp.

Walsby, J., and Morton, J. 1982. Marine Molluscs. Part 1: Amphineura, Archaeogastropoda & Pulmonata. Leigh Marine Laboratory, Leigh. 89 pp.

Willan, R., and Morton, J. 1984. Marine Molluscs. Part 2: Opisthobranchia. Leigh Marine Laboratory, Leigh. 106 pp.

Echinoderms

Baker, A. N. 1998. The rediscovery of Echinus elevatus Hutton 1872 in New Zealand, and a new name for Acanthotrema Baker & Rowe 1990 (Echinodermata: Echinoidea). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28: 281-286.

McRae, A. 1959. Evechinus chloroticus (Val.), an endemic New Zealand echinoid. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 86: 205-267.

Fishes

Francis, M. 2001. Coastal Fishes of New Zealand: An Identification Guide. Reed, Auckland. 103 pp.

Paulin, C., Stewart, A., Roberts, C., and McMillan, P. 1989. New Zealand Fish: A Complete Guide. GP Books, New Zealand. 279 pp.

Polychaetes

Day, J. H., and Hutchings, P. A. 1979. An annotated check-list of Australian and New Zealand Polychaeta, Archiannelida and Myzostomida. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 80-161.

Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms: definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 28: 1-188.

Hutchings, P., and Reid, A. 1991. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia - Leonnates, Platynereis and Solomononereis. Records of the Australian Museum 43: 47-62.

Knox, G. A. 1951. A guide to the families and genera of New Zealand polychaetes. Tuatara 4: 63-85.

Caddisflies (Trichoptera)

Riek, E. F. 1976. The marine caddisfly family Chathamiidae (Trichoptera). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 405-419. Ward, J. B. 1995. Nine new species of New Zealand caddis (Trichoptera). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 22: 91-103.

Caprellid amphipods

McCain, J. C. 1969. New Zealand Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 3: 286-295.

Gammarid amphipods

Barnard, J. L. 1972. The marine fauna of New Zealand: algae-living littoral Gammaridea (Crustacea Amphipoda). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 62: 1-216.

Barnard, J. L., and Karaman, G. S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 13:1-866.

González, E. 1991. The genus Hyale in Chile (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Spixiana 14: 125-142.

Hurley, D. E. 1957. Studies on the New Zealand amphipodan fauna. No. 14.- The genera Hyale and Allorchestes (Family Talitridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 84: 903-933.

Lowry, J. K. 1974. Key and checklist to the gammaridean amphipods of Kaikoura. Mauri Ora 2: 95-130.

Lowry, J. K. 1981. The amphipod genus Cerapus in New Zealand and subantarctic waters (Corophioidea, Ischyroceridae). Journal of Natural History 15: 183-211.

Myers, A. A., and Moore, P. G. 1983. The New Zealand and south-east Australian species of Aora Krøyer (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 167-180.

Poore, A. G. B., and Lowry, J. K. 1997. New ampithoid amphipods from Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 11:897-941. [Contains key to ampithoid genera]

Isopods

Harrison, K., and Ellis, J. P. 1991. The genera of the Sphaeromatidae (Crustacea: Isopoda): a key and distribution list. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 915-952.

Hurley, D. E. 1961. A checklist and key to the Crustacea Isopoda of New Zealand and the subantarctic islands. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand Zoology 1(20): 259-292.

Hurley, D. E., and Jansen, K. P. 1977. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Family Sphaeromatidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Flabellifera). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 63: 1-96.

Lew Ton, H. M., and Poore, G. C. B. 1986. Neastacilla falclandica (Ohlin), type species of the genus, and N. tattersalli, new species (Crustacea: Isopoda: Arcturidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99: 191-195.

Menzies, R. J. 1959. The identification and distribution of the species of Limnoria. In: Marine Boring and Fouling Organisms. Ray, D. L. (ed.). University of Washington Press, Seattle. pp. 10-33.

Poore, G. C. B. 1981. Marine Isopoda of The Snares islands, New Zealand - 1. Gnathiidea, Valvifera, Anthuridea, and Flabellifera. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 8: 331-348.

Poore, G. C. B., and Lew Ton, H. M. 1993. Idoteidae of Australia and New Zealand (Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera). Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 197-278. Stephenson, A. B., and Riley, J. L. 1996. Scutuloidea kutu, a new species of Sphaeromatidae (Isopoda: Crustacea) from New Zealand. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 33: 195-200.

Wilson, G. D., Thistle, D., and Hessler, R. R. 1976. The Plakarthriidae (Isopoda: Flabellifera): déjà vu. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 58: 331-343.

World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/isopod/]

Crabs

Forest, J., Laurent, M. de S., McLaughlin, P. A., and Lemaitre, R. 2000. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Paguridea (Decapoda: Anomura) Exclusive of the Lithodidae. NIWA Memoir 114. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington. 250 pp.

McLay, C. L. 1988. Brachyura and crab-like Anomura of New Zealand. Leigh Laboratory Bulletin 22: 1-463.

Melrose, M. J. 1975. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Family Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 34: 1-123.

Schembri, P. J., and McLay, C. L. 1983. An annotated key to the hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) of the Otago region (southeastern New Zealand). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 17: 27-35.

Shrimps

Richardson, L. R., and Yaldwyn, J. C. 1958-1959. A guide to the natant decapod Crustacea (shrimps and prawns) of New Zealand. Tuatara 7: 17-41.