NIWA marine biologists have contributed hundreds of new species to a worldwide register of the planet’s underwater life.
A new species of the squat lobster Uroptychus, common on Chatham Rise and south to Macquarie Ridge.
Photo: Owen Anderson / NIWA
Desmodorella is one of several new nematode worm species discovered on Hataitai Beach, Wellington.
Photo: Daniel Leduc / NIWA
Syracosphaera pemmadiscus, an ultra-tiny member of a group of microalgae called coccolithophores.
Photo: Hoe Chang
Litarachna lopezae, a species of mite collected in the waters of Puerto Rico and named after entertainer Jennifer Lopez.
Sousa sahulensis, the Australian humpback dolphin, is one of two newly discovered dolphin species.
Areospora rohanae, a new genus and species of parasite, first noticed by Chilean fisheries workers, that invades and causes lesions on the valuable king crab.
Mysidopsis zsilaveczi, a 'star-gazing' shrimp in South Africa, so-called because its eyes are fixed in an upward direction.
Keesingia gigas is a new genus and species of giant jellyfish, venomous and tentacle-free, named in honour of renowned Australian biologist John Keesing.
Histiophryne psychedelica, an Indonesian frogfish with psychedelic colouring
Inia araguaiaensis is a long-snouted river dolphin from Brazil.
A new species of sea dragon, the ruby red Phyllopteryx dewysea from southern Australia, distinguished via DNA analysis from two other sea dragon species.
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