Story: Corals, anemones and jellyfish

More links and websites

• Chronicles of the deep: ageing deep-sea corals in New Zealand waters

  An article by Di Tracey and others, published in Water & Atmosphere online, on the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) site. The article includes a definition of coral types.

• Introduction to cnidaria

  The University of California, Berkeley, website gives an excellent overview of cnidarians and leads to other links.

• Know your jellyfish

  An informative, well-illustrated site written by Dr Floor Anthoni about some of New Zealand’s larger jellyfish.

More suggestions and sources

• Batson, Peter. Deep New Zealand: blue water, black abyss. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2003.
• Cairns, S. D., and others. ‘Phylum Cnidaria – corals, medusae, and hydroids.’ In The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: a species 2000 symposium review, edited by D. P. Gordon. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005.
• Powell, A. W. B. Powell’s native animals of New Zealand, edited by B. J. Gill. 4th ed. Auckland: David Bateman, 1998.