a field guide to the planet - by Damon Ramsey
AUSTRALASIAN Temperate Ocean
invertebrates
The various invertebrates underneath the chilly temperate waters of New Zealand and southern Australia...
Phylum Cnidaria: Corals and Sea Jellies
Order Antipatharia: Black Corals
Antipathella (previously Antipathes) fiordensis, 'Black Coral' (Milford Sound Observatory, New Zealand).
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Sabellida
Protula sp. (Milford Sound Underwater Observatory, New Zealand).
Phylum Echinodermata: 'Sea Stars', 'Sea Cucumbers' etc
Family Asteriidae
Coscinasterias calamaria, 'Eleven-armed Sea-star' (Milford Sound Observatory, New Zealand). Found along southern Australia and New Zealand shores.
Thinking of travelling again after everything settles down? One of the first expeditions I am booked to work on is the NZ sub-Antarctics with Silversea Expeditions and Australia with Coral Expeditions. And here is a shortened version of one of my lectures in a warmer part of the world.