Over the summer I read Lucy Baragwanath’s copy of Seacoast in the seventies – the future of the New Zealand shoreline by John Morton and friends. It’s a fascinating insight into the pressures on Auckland’s coastline in the early 1970’s. The book mentions an upcoming study on the ecology of the Auckland Harbour. Lucy and I were able to track it down and Paul Kennedy kindly let me borrow his copy.
The Waitemata Harbour Study 1973 by M. F. Larcombe is an incredible record of the intertidal zone but it’s very hard to read because, not only are there a lot of scientific names many of them have changed over time. I used records from iNaturalist.nz to make a visual alphabetic key with updated names to make it easier to read. For some reason not a single scientific study on Google scholar references the study. I hope that changes.