Fauna of New Zealand Series
Ko te Aitanga Pepeke o Aotearoa
The Fauna of New Zealand series has been widely acclaimed for its role in presenting New Zealand's unique invertebrate fauna to the world since 1982.
The Fauna of New Zealand is a monograph series, with approximately two new issues a year. 61 issues have been published to date. Each number contains a checklist of the taxa, an introduction to the group, descriptions of the taxa, illustrations - line and half-tone, and occasionally colour photographs. It was the first scientific series in New Zealand to have popular summaries in Māori and English.
Free PDF 
versions of 50 contributions (1-29, 40, 42-61) are currently available. The resolution of these PDFs is not as high as the ink-on-paper copies or high-quality PDFs, and very fine lines and rules in illustrations may be broken or do not show.Free XML versions of numbers 11, 21, 40, and 43 are also available in a project made possible
through TFBIS (Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System) funding administered by the Department of Conservation.
- Fauna of NZ Online. Extracts for all 61 contributions, and searchable PDF facsimiles for 50 contributions: numbers 1-29, 40, 42-61. Macronised vowels in Māori popular summaries for numbers 40 onwards may not display on some computers; if this occurs on your computer download this font set (WPMultinationalA Roman) and place it in your Windows Fonts folder (restrictions prevent this font from being embedded in the PDFs). See details of how the PDFs were prepared. [PDF search hint: find information associated with specimens by using a locality or plant name as the search term].
- Quicklink to Online Abstracts list
- Quicklink to Online Popular summaries list
- Quicklink to Online Māori summaries list
- Check out the latest Fauna issue
- Statistics about the Fauna series
Primary Contact:
The Series Editor is Dr Trevor Crosby, Landcare Research, based at the Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland.
 | Trevor Crosby Email  |
Landcare Research | |
Phone: 09 574 4100 |
Series ISSN: 0111-5383.