The Auckland Museum Marine Collection consists of a wide range of specimens from New Zealand coastal and oceanic waters.
The collection includes a large number of sea-shore and inter-tidal species collected from beaches, foreshores and estuaries.
Although the collection holds specimens from the tropical Pacific through to the Sub Antarctic islands, it concentrates on species from northern New Zealand.
As well as looking after the second-largest collection of New Zealand marine molluscs, the Marine Department cares for a large and significant collection of land snails from New Zealand and the tropical Pacific. It also houses a large number of fossil specimens.
In total there are more than 750,000 specimens in the collection, and its strengths are:
- New Zealand marine and land molluscs (bivalves and snails)
- Fish (one of two major research collections in the country)
- Pacific molluscs (fresh-water, marine and land snails)
- Crustacea (including crayfish, crabs, amphipods and isopods)
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Marine
Staff and volunteers of the Marine Department are working towards cataloguing all of its specimens, and making them available on-line. However, at this stage only a small selection of specimens is available. Click here to search the electronic catalogue of Marine specimens.
Records in this part of the database are currently restricted to primary type specimens of the Marine Biology Collections (note: this collection also includes freshwater mollusca and excludes marine plants which are found in the Botany database).
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Where to see in the Museum
Objects and specimans from the Department’s collections can be seen in the following galleries:
Oceans Gallery
Coastal Gallery
Origins Gallery
Weird & Wonderful
Natural History Information Centre
Contact Us
Marine Curator Tom Trnski
Phone (09) 309 0443
ttrnski@aucklandmuseum.com
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