NIWA Invertebrate Collection

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla. This is a result of about half a century of marine taxonomic and biodiversity research in the New Zealand region, the South West Pacific and the Ross Sea, Antarctica.
New Zealand lies in the South West Pacific, a region that harbours one of the world’s highest species diversity in some marine invertebrate groups with a high proportion of endemic species (that don't occur anywhere else). This huge diversity is, among other things, related to the variable seafloor relief and New Zealand’s ancient geological history. NIWA is fortunate to hold a significant representation of New Zealand’s marine biodiversity in the NIWA Invertebrate Collection at Greta Point in Wellington.
This collection has had the taxa matched to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). There are taxa that have no match in WoRMS as thet are temporary or unpublished names. These records do not a scientificNameId field populated. There are also many records that have no position information. Many of these are donated specimens.

NIWA无脊椎动物馆藏（NIWA Invertebrate Collection, NIC）收纳了几乎所有无脊椎动物门的标本。这一馆藏的形成，源于近半个世纪以来在新西兰区域、西南太平洋及南极罗斯海开展的海洋分类学与生物多样性研究工作。
新西兰地处西南太平洋海域，该区域的部分海洋无脊椎动物类群拥有全球顶尖的物种多样性，且特有物种（仅分布于此的物种）占比颇高。这种极高的物种多样性，除其他影响因素外，与多变的海底地形以及新西兰悠久的地质历史密切相关。坐落于惠灵顿格雷塔角的NIWA无脊椎动物馆藏，有幸收纳了新西兰海洋生物多样性的大量代表性类群。
该馆藏的分类单元已与世界海洋物种登记册（World Register of Marine Species, WoRMS）完成匹配。部分分类单元因属于临时名称或未正式发表的名称，无法在WoRMS中找到对应条目，因此此类记录未填充科学名称标识符（scientificNameId）字段。此外，馆藏中还有大量缺失位置信息的记录，其中多数为捐赠标本。