Geoffrey Bernard Read

Geoffrey Bernard Read, zoologist.

• National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Private Bag 14-901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
• g.readniwa.co.nz, greadactrix.gen.nz

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 12 taxon names authored by Geoffrey Bernard Read

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1975

• Read, G.B. 1975: Systematics and biology of polydorid species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Wellington Harbour. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 5(4): 395-419. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1975.10419361 . Reference page. 

1977

• Kudenov, J.D. & Read, G.B. 1977. Axiothella serrata n.sp., a maldanid polychaete from Porirua Harbour, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 11(4): 697–702. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1977.9515706 . Reference page. 

1980

• Read, G.B. 1980: A new species of Nereis (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from Wellington, New Zealand, rock shores. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 10(2): 185-193. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1980.10427174 . Reference page. 

1984

• Read, G.B. 1984. Recruitment and population dynamics of Axiothella serrata (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) on an intertidal sand flat. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 11(4): 399–411. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1984.10428254 . Reference page. 
• Read, G.B. 1984. Persistence of infaunal polychaete zonation patterns on a sheltered, intertidal sand flat. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 18(4): 399-416. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1984.9516061 . Reference page. 

1986

• Read, G.B. 1986. New deep-sea Poecilochaetidae (Polychaeta: Spionida) from New Zealand. Journal of Natural History 20(2): 399–414. DOI: 10.1080/00222938600770301 . Reference page. 

1991

• Read, G.B. & Gordon, D.P. 1991. Adventive occurrence of the fouling serpulid Ficopomatus enigmaticus, Polychaeta, in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 25(3): 269-274. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.1991.9516478 . Reference page. 

1996

• Probert, P.K.; Grove, S.L.; McKnight, D.G.; Read, G.B. 1996: Polychaete distribution on the Chatham Rise, southwest Pacific. Internationale revue der gesamten hydrobiologie und hydrographie 81(4): 577-588. DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19960810411 . Reference page. 

1998

• Glasby, C.J. & Read, G.B. 1998. A chronological review of polychaete taxonomy in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(3): 347–374. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1998.9517570 Reference page. 

1999

• Read, G.B. & Clark, H.E.S. 1999. Ingestion of quill-worms by the astropectinid sea-star Proserpinaster neozelanicus (Mortensen). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 26(1): 49–54. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1999.9518177 . Reference page. 

2000

• Read, G.B. 2000: Taxonomy and distribution of a new Cossura species (Annelida: Polychaeta: Cossuridae) from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113(4): 1096-1110. BHL Reference page. 

2004

• Eagar, S.H. & Read, G.B. 2004. A new species of Pontocypria (Ostracoda) living on Chaetopterus sp. (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. New Zealand Natural Sciences 29: 49–54. PDF Reference page. 

2006

• Read, G.B. 2006. Adventive occurrence in New Zealand of the scale-worm Paralepidonotus ampulliferus (Annelida: Polychaeta: Polynoidae). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40(4): 643–654. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2006.9517452 . Reference page. 

2007

• Read, G.B. 2007: Taxonomy of sympatric New Zealand species of Platynereis, with description of three new species additional to P. australis (Schmarda) (Annelida: Polychaeta: Nereididae). Zootaxa 1558: 1–28. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2009

• Glasby, C.J., Read, G.B., Lee, K.E., Blakemore, R.J., Fraser, P.M., Pinder, A.M., Erséus, C., Moser, W.E., Burreson, E.M., Govedich, F.R., Davies, R.W. & Dawson, E.W. 2009. 17. Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. Pp. 312–358. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.). 2009. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 1. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press: Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725772-8. Reference page.  Reference page. 

2010

• Read, G.B. 2010. Comparison and history of Polydora websteri and P. haswelli (Polychaeta: Spionidae) as mud-blister worms in New Zealand shellfish. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 44(2): 83-100. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2010.482969 . Reference page. 

2011

• Read, G.B. 2011. A new Clymenura (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) from the intertidal of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, with a reassessment of Leiochone Grube, 1868 and Clymenura Verrill, 1900. Zootaxa 2934: 39–52. Preview Reference page. 
• Read, G.B., Inglis, G., Stratford, P. & Ahyong, S.T. 2011. Arrival of the alien fanworm Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in two New Zealand harbours. Aquatic invasions 6(3): 273–279. DOI: 10.3391/ai.2011.6.3.04 . Reference page. 

2015

• Read, G.B. & Nogueira, J.M.de M. 2015. A probable non-annelid origin of pods attached to Amaeana ellobophora (Annelida: Polycirridae). Zootaxa 4048(3): 428–430. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.3.5. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2017

• Read, G.B., ten Hove, H.A., Sun, Y. & Kupriyanova, E.K. 2017. Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 (Annelida, Serpulidae) is feminine: a nomenclatural checklist of updated names. ZooKeys 642: 1-52. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.642.10443. Reference page. 

Theses

• Read, G.B. 1974: Studies on the systematics, heteronereid forms, swarming, and larval development of the Nereidae (Polychaeta) in Wellington Harbour. Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
• Read, G.B. 1983: Population ecology studies on infaunal polychaetes of Pauatahanui Inlet. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.