Feeding habits of six deep‐sea demersal trawl‐caught macrourids on Chatham Rise, New Zealand, were examined from stomach contents during the austral summer. Three species were predominantly benthic foragers: smallbanded rattail Coelorinchus parvifasciatus on small epifaunal crustaceans, twosaddle rattail Coelorinchus biclinozonalis on epifaunal decapods and humpback rattail Coryphaenoides dossenus on benthic fishes and epifaun...

We investigated the relationship between climate variation and year‐class strengths for hoki ( Macruronus novaezelandiae ) in New Zealand waters. Our analyses extended those of a previous study, by using an additional 6 years’ data and considering some additional predictands (total year‐class strength and proportion migrating) relating to an alternative stock‐structure hypothesis, and also updated them, by using revised versio...

Xantharus Andronov, 1981 is reported, for the first time from New Zealand, from the upper slope (306 m) off the southeastern coast of North Island (41°04.10′S, 176°22.05′E). Xantharus cryeri n. sp. females differ from the three known species by a combination of characters: antennules that extend to the distal border of pedigerous somite 2; ancestral segment XVIII of the antennule with 1 seta; mandible basis with 3 setae; maxil...

Two new species of Xanthocalanus are reported from the New Zealand continental slope. The female and male of X. longispinus n. sp. is described as well as the female of X. stewarti n. sp. Aspects of X. fallax and X. minor from Norway are re‐described and illustrated where observations differed from previous descriptions. Females of the two new species are distinguished from all other Xanthocalanus by a combination of character...

A new species of benthopelagic calanoid Copepoda is described from New Zealand. The species, Bradyidius capax n. sp. (Family: Aetideidae), is the second species of this genus to be recorded from New Zealand. B. capax females are close toB. armatus Giesbrecht, 1897 and B. rakuma (Zvereva, 1977). B. capax differs from these two species by a combination of its small size, hardly divergent rostral points, fusion line between pedig...

Two species of benthopelagic calanoid Copepoda, Neoscolecithrix cf. magna (Grice, 1972) and N. ornata n. sp., are described from the upper slope off North Cape, New Zealand. Neoscolecithrix ornata is distinguished from other species of Neoscolecithrix Canu, 1896 s.s. that have a female leg 5 terminal segment with 4 spines (2 terminal and 1 on each border) principally by the transverse row of long, fine spines on the female gen...

A new species of benthopelagic calanoid Copepoda is described from off North Cape, New Zealand. The species, Tharybis inaequalis n. sp. (Family: Tharybidae), is the first record of this genus from New Zealand. T. inaequalis females are distinguished from all other described Tharybis by the asymmetrical fifth legs (long and thin on the left and short and squat on the right) with a pair of subequal outer terminal spines and an i...

Two new species of benthopelagic calanoid Copepoda are decribed from Evans Bay, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. The species Stephos hastatus n. sp. and S. angulatus n. sp. (Family: Stephidae) are the first records of this family and genus from New Zealand.