Natural History publications

Baucon, A., Ferretti, A., Fioroni, C., Pandolfi, L., Serpagli, E., Piccinini, A., De Carvalho, C. N., Cachão, M., Linley, T., Muñiz, F., Belaústegui, Z., Jamieson, A., Lo Russo, G., Guerrini, F., Ferrando, S., & Priede, I. (2023). The earliest evidence of deep-sea vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(37). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306164120

Brockelsby, W. D., Miskelly, C. M., Glare, T. R., & Minor, M. A. (2023). The number of larval instars in the flax weevil ( Anagotus fairburni ) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2023.2251898

Carlig, E., Di Blasi, D., Ghigliotti, L., Scalas, A., Stewart, A. L., & Mortara, M. (2024). Feeding behaviour of seven icefish species (Channichthyidae) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Fishes, 9(7), 247. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes9070247

Dutoit, L., Mitchell, K. J., Dussex, N., Kemper, C. M., Larsson, P., Dalén, L., Rawlence, N. J., & Marx, F. G. (2023). Convergent evolution of skim feeding in baleen whales. Marine Mammal Science, 39(4), 1337–1343. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13047

Ehret, D. J., Tennyson, A. J. D., Richards, M. D., & Boessenecker, R. W. (2023). First records of two mackerel shark species ( Carcharodon planus comb. nov. and Carcharodon hubbelli ; Lamnidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 54(5), 609–619. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2023.2278730

French, R. K., Anderson, S. H., Cain, K. E., Greene, T. C., Minor, M., Miskelly, C. M., Montoya, J. M., Wille, M., Muller, C. G., Taylor, M. W., Digby, A., Crane, J., Davitt, G., Eason, D., Hedman, P., Jeynes, B., Latimer, S., Little, S., Mitchell, M., . . . Holmes, E. C. (2023). Host phylogeny shapes viral transmission networks in an island ecosystem. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(11), 1834–1843. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02192-9

Gottfried, M. D., & Tennyson, A. J. D. (2023). A Pliocene boxfish (Tetraodontiformes, Ostraciidae) from New Zealand – a preview of future environmental change? Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 54(5), 602–608. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2023.2256681

Ksepka, D. T., & Tennyson, A. J. D. (2023). Oldest fossil record of Sulidae from New Zealand. Journal of Ornithology, 165(1), 277–280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-023-02117-0

Ksepka, D. T., Tennyson, A. J. D., Richards, M. D., & Fordyce, R. E. (2023). Stem albatrosses wandered far: a new species of Plotornis (Aves, Pan-Diomedeidae) from the earliest Miocene of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 54(5), 643–659. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2023.2266390

Lehnebach, C. A., & Jones, H. R. (2024). Taxonomic notes on New Zealand orchids I: typification of nine orchid names described by William Colenso in 1886. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.2024.2353917

Marx, F. G., Coste, A., Richards, M. D., Palin, J. M., & Fordyce, R. E. (2024). Strontium isotopes reveal a globally unique assemblage of Early Miocene baleen whales. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 54(5), 711–721. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2023.2278732

Marx, F.G., Richards, M.D., Fordyce, R.E. (2023) Chapter 25. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia (marine mammals). Pp. 391–397 in: Kelly, M., Mills, S., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C., Nelson, W. (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp.

Miskelly, C.M. & Shepherd, L.D. (2023). Long-distance dispersal by a Coenocorypha snipe. Notornis. 70. 135-138.  https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/publications/long-distance-dispersal-by-a-coenocorypha-snipe/

Miskelly, C.M., Crossland, A., Tennyson, A.J.D., Bell, E., Saville, I., & Southey, I. (2023). Vagrant and extra-limital bird records accepted by the Birds New Zealand Records Appraisal Committee 2021–2022. Notornis. 70. 60-73.  https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Miskelly_etal_70-60-73.v2.pdf

Miskelly, C.M., Bell, B.D., Bishop, D.M., (2023). Changes in a New Zealand wetland bird community following creation of a predator-fenced sanctuary. Notornis. 70. 160-169.  https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Miskelly_etal_704_160-169.v4.pdf

Miskelly, C.M., (2024). Fernbird (mātātā, Poodytes punctatus) preying on a lizard. Notornis. 71. 29-30.  https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Shortnote_Miskelly_711_29-30.pdf

Ning, W., Meudt, H. M., & Tate, J. A. (2024). A roadmap of phylogenomic methods for studying polyploid plant genera. Applications in Plant Sciences, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11580

O’Neill, H. L., White, W. T., Pogonoski, J. J., Alvarez, B., Gomez, O., & Keesing, J. K. (2023). Sharks checking in to the sponge hotel: First internal use of sponges of the genus Agelas and family Irciniidae by banded sand catsharks Atelomycterus fasciatus. Journal of Fish Biology, 104(1), 304–309. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15554

Perrie, L. R., Amice, R., Shepherd, L. D., & Brownsey, P. J. (2023). Tmesipteris alticola (Psilotaceae), a new fern species endemic to New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.2023.2240737

Perrie, L., & Shepherd, L. (2023). Naturalisation of the tree of love Aichryson laxum (Crassulaceae) and its implications for biosecurity surveillance in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.2023.2279296

Pure, G.A. & Miskelly, C.M. (2023). Riflemen (tītitipounamu, Acanthisitta chloris: Acanthisittidae) eating seeds of silver beech (tawhai, Lophozonia menziesii:
Nothofagaceae). Notornis. 70. 139-142.  https://www.birdsnz.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Shortnote_Pure-Miskelly_70_139-142-v3.pdf

Rawlence, N. J., Verry, A. J. F., Cole, T. L., Shepherd, L. D., Tennyson, A. J. D., Williams, M., Wood, J. R., & Mitchell, K. J. (2024). Ancient mitogenomes reveal evidence for the Late Miocene dispersal of mergansers to the Southern Hemisphere. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae040

Rule, J. P., Duncan, R. J., Marx, F. G., Pollock, T. I., Evans, A. R., & Fitzgerald, E. M. (2023). Giant baleen whales emerged from a cold southern cradle. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 290(2013). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2177

Schwartsburd, P. B., Bostock, P. D., Parris, B., Field, A., Brownsey, P., & Nepi, C. (2024). Updated typification of the Tasmanian pteridophytes described by Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen of 1806. Taxon. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.13215

Shepherd, L. D., Tennyson, A. J. D., & Miskelly, C. M. (2024). Mitochondrial DNA structuring of Antarctic prions (Pachyptila desolata, Procellariidae). Tuhinga, 35, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3897/tuhinga.35.115090

Shepherd, L. D., Townsend, A., De Lange, P. J., & Perrie, L. R. (2023). Genetic analysis of a genus of plant mimics (Alseuosmia A.Cunn; Alseuosmiaceae) reveals incongruence between morphology and phylogeny and possible mimetic polymorphism. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/kzad005

Stewart, A. L., Kenaley, C. P., & Sutton, T. (2024). A new species of Eustomias (Nominostomias) (Stomiiformes: Stomiidae) from the Kermadec Ridge—Tonga Trench region, western South Pacific Ocean, with notes on the barbel morphology of E. trewavasae. Zootaxa, 5458(1), 93–107. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5458.1.5

Stewart, A. L., Pietsch, T. W., Moore, J., & Peng, X. (2023). Upside‐down swimming: in situ observations of inverted orientation in Gigantactis, with a new depth record for the Ceratioidei. Journal of Fish Biology, 104(3), 887–891. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15609

Struthers, C.D., Stewart, A.L., Roberts, C.D., Schwarzhans, W., Barker, J.J., Kortet, S. (2023) Chapter 22. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata (lancelets, hagfishes, cartilaginous & bony fishes, & fossil fishes identified from otoliths). Pp. 331–371 in: Kelly, M., Mills, S., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C., Nelson, W. (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp. 

Tennyson, A. J. D., Greer, L., Lubbe, P., Marx, F. G., Giovanardi, S., & Rawlence, N. J. (2024). A response to Worthy et al. 2022. A swan-sized fossil anatid (Aves: Anatidae) from the early Miocene St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand. Zootaxa, 5168 (1), 39–50. Zootaxa, 5453(1), 127–128. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5453.1.8

Tennyson, A. J. D., Salvador, R. B., Tomotani, B. M., & Marx, F. G. (2024). A New Diving Pliocene Ardenna Shearwater (Aves: Procellariidae) from New Zealand. Taxonomy, 4(2), 237–249. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy4020012

Tennyson, A.J.D. (2023) Chapter 24. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Aves (seabirds). Pp. 381–388 in: Kelly, M., Mills, S., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C., Nelson, W. (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp. 

Valdivia, M., Frones, L., Rossini, E., Laporta, P., Carroll, E. L., McGowen, M. R., Marx, F. G., & Ríos, N. (2024). First record of Ramari’s beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) for Uruguay. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 104. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315423000929

Van Der Walt, K., Lehnebach, C. A., & Alderton-Moss, J. (2024). Asymbiotic germination, seedling establishment and fungal uptake of Pterostylis montana and P. paludosa , two orchid species endemic to New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825x.2023.2294840

Vaughan, P. M., Bird, J. P., Bretagnolle, V., Shirihai, H., Tennyson, A. J. D., Miskelly, C. M., & Clarke, R. H. (2024). A review of records and research actions for the poorly known Vanuatu Petrel Pterodroma [cervicalis] occulta. Bird Conservation International, 34. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959270923000382

Walton, K., Marshall, B.A., Spencer, H.G. (2023) Chapter 14. Kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca (clams, slugs, snails, cephalopods, & kin). Pp. 215–237 in: Kelly, M., Mills, S., Terezow, M., Sim-Smith, C., Nelson, W. (Eds) The Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand. Updating our marine biodiversity inventory. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 136, 494 pp.

White, W. T., Stewart, A. L., O’Neill, H. L., & Naylor, G. J. P. (2024). Dichichthyidae, a New Family of Deepwater Sharks (Carcharhiniformes) from the Indo–West Pacific, with Description of a New Species. Fishes, 9(4), 121. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes9040121