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Polychaete or macrofauna identification

You need a cost-effective alternative for your marine environmental work. We can accommodate your macrofaunal identification and analysis needs on a per-contract or regular basis (no perpetual lab overheads). Use us to augment your own team to capture more extensive private and municipal contracts.

We provide a rapid turn-around time for polychaetes identified to family. Familiarity with many New Zealand estuarine and shelf species means genus or species-level identification in these areas is often fast too! If your samples are mixed, we provide the appropriate taxonomic resolution or parataxonomy services for other groups (e.g. molluscs, arthropods, echinoderms, etc.)

YES! We will make a reference collection for you!  One of our favourite things to do is to properly separate, diagram, describe, and photograph your taxa to create a properly indexed reference collection that your lab can use in its own monitoring work. Building a collection is expensive at first, but economical in the long-run.

  • Polychaetes (Family Level)
    Can be done on almost any reasonably-well preserved samples
  • Polychaetes (Genus Level)
    Requires properly collected, fixed, and shipped material. Please contact us for guidance.
  • Polychaetes (Species Level)
    Requires proper material and local species list, reference material, or a considerable amount of time.
  • Macrofauna
    Study requirements and budget determine taxonomic resolution. We will optimise your budget by quickly working through all material and then focus our efforts on the taxa appropriate to your hypothesis.
  • Meiofauna
    We love nematodes, but parataxonomy for other groups is possible. Please contact us.
         
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