Journal covers & photographic contributions
Scientific journals and reports where my photography has been used as publication or cover imagery.

New Zealand Journal of Zoology — Trite planiceps cover
Cover photograph of a male Trite planiceps on Phormium tenax, credited to Bryce McQuillan.

The Wētā — Volume 51
Cover featuring my marine spider photography associated with the Desis marina publication.

New Zealand Entomologist — Volume 36, Issue 2
Journal cover featuring one of my spider photographs.

New Zealand Journal of Zoology — Volume 40, Issue 4
Cover photography contribution.

New Zealand Entomologist — Volume 49, Issue 1
March 2026 journal cover featuring photography I contributed.

Invertebrate Systematics — Volume 27, Issue 6
Cover photography contribution.

New Zealand Threat Classification Series 44 — Conservation status of amphibians in Aotearoa New Zealand
My Hochstetter’s frog photograph was used on the cover of the 2024 amphibian conservation-status report.
Papers & research contributions
The black-headed jumping spider, Trite planiceps: redescription including COI and paralogous 28S sequences
Taxonomic redescription and molecular work on one of New Zealand’s best-known jumping spiders.
The marine spider, Desis marina: new observations and localities
Field observations and new locality information for New Zealand’s remarkable intertidal marine spider.
Spidroins and Silk Fibers of Aquatic Spiders
Research characterising silk proteins in aquatic and semi-aquatic spiders, including New Zealand’s Desis marina.
A new genus for a large, endemic orb-weaving spider from New Zealand
The paper establishing Courtaraneus gen. nov. for the endemic orb-weaver Courtaraneus orientalis.
Revision of the new Australasian orb-weaving spider genus Salsa
Taxonomic revision establishing the genus Salsa, including New Zealand records of S. fuliginata.
A revised classification system of the marronoid clade of spiders (Araneae), based on dense sampling phylogenomics and comparative morphology
A major phylogenomic revision of the marronoid spider clade, proposing a revised classification across 18 families.






