Te Papa Te Taiao Nature Series: Native Fishes of Aotearoa

By Andrew Stewart

Publication: October 2025
Pages: 152
Format: Hardback
ISBN:  978-1-99-107212-2

RRP: $27

Available 9 October 2025.

Part of the wildly popular Te Papa Te Taiao Nature Series, Native Fishes of Aotearoa is an accessible, handsomely illustrated guide to sixty of our most commonly encountered and interesting native coastal and freshwater fish species of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Written by Te Papa fishes expert Andrew Stewart, Native Fishes includes curator notes on each species and insights into the museum’s fieldwork and collections. Specialist illustrators working on specimens from Te Papa’s collections have provided detailed original drawings to accompany each entry.

A beautiful little hardback designed by award-winning designer Tim Denee, it’s an ideal keepsake or gift that can be used in the backyard or out in the natural world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew Stewart is Assistant Curator Natural History at Te Papa and co-author of the landmark The Fishes of New Zealand (2015). Andrew has had a fascination and love of fishes since he was very small and since developed that interest at Te Papa for over forty years through research and science outreach. His particular areas of specialisation are sharks and rays, the deep-water fishes and Southern Ocean (Antarctic) fishes.