NMBAQC

Taxonomic References

Algaebase

Campbell, A. (2005) Philip's guide to seashores and shallow seas of Britain and Northern Europe.  London, Philip's.

Dipper, F. (1987) British Sea Fishes. Underwater World Publications. London

Earll, R.C. (1992) The SeaSearch Habitat Guide - an identification guide to the main habitats found in the shallow seas around the British Isles. Ross-on-Wye: Marine Conservation Society.

Encyclopaedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland

Erwin, D. & Picton, B.E. (1987) The Marine Conservation Society Guide to Inshore Marine Life. Immel Publishing, London.

Gibson, R., Hextall, B. & Rogers, A., (2001) Photographic Guide to the Sea and Seashore Life of Britain & North-west Europe.  Oxford. Oxford University Press.

Hayward, J.P. & Ryland, J.S. (Eds.)(1995) Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe. Oxford University Press.

Hiscock, K., 1990. Marine Nature Conservation Review: methods. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, Nature Conservancy Council, CSD Report, No. 1072. (Marine Nature Conservation Review Report, No. MNCR/OR/5.).

Hiscock, S. 1979. A Field Key to the British Brown Seaweeds. Paperback. 44 pp.

Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.,

Irving, R. (1998) Sussex Marine Life. Marine Conservation Society. Ross on Wye.

Irving, R. & Wood, C. (2007) The Seasearch Biotope Key. 

Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU Network of Excellence

Marine Life Information Network

Moen F.E. and Svensen, E. (2004) Marine fish & invertebrates of Northern Europe.             
Aquapress (United Kingdom), 608 pp.

Naylor, P. (2005) Great British Marine Animals. Marine Conservation Society. Ross on Wye.

Picton, B.E. 1993. Echinoderms of the British Isles. Immel Publishing Ltd. London.

Richards, A., Bunker, F., & Foster-Smith, R. (1995) Handbook for marine intertidal phase 1 habitat mapping - version 3.95. Countryside Council for Wales, Bangor, Natural Sciences Report, no. 95/96/1.

SACFOR Scale (JNCC)

Seasearch

Wells Marine Survey. A Field Guide to the British Seaweeds - As required for assistance in the classification of water bodies under the Water Framework Directive.

WoRMS

Wood, C. (2005) Seasearch Guide to Anemones and Corals of Britain and Ireland. Marine Conservation Society. Ross on Wye.

Wood, C. (2007) Seasearch Observer's Guide to Marine Life of Britain and Ireland.  Marine Conservation Society. Ross on Wye.