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Occurrence records
records in total.
5,146
Data sets
Institutions | 951 |
Collections | 204 |
Data Resources | 1,204 |
• Data Available | 1,131 |
• Description only | 73 |
Species List sets | 3,859 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 101.27M |
Preserved specimen | 15.64M |
Observation | 5.33M |
Occurrence | 5.20M |
Machine observation | 3.73M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
Latest record | 12 March 2024 |
Last image added | 11 March 2024 |
1600s | 39 |
1700s | 24,093 |
1800s | 474,381 |
1900s | 31.24M |
2000s | 94.51M |
National Species Lists
Accepted names | 195,424 |
Synonyms | 146,974 |
Species names | 152,080 |
Species with records | 111,566 |
157
Spatial layers
Contextual layers | 92 |
Environmental/grided layers | 65 |
Terrestrial layers | 141 |
Marine layers | 9 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie | 1.94M |
Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.45M |
Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail | 1.24M |
Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena - Welcome Swallow | 1.15M |
Eolophus roseicapilla - Galah | 1.09M |
Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.06M |
13.88M |
252,122
Type specimens
Holotypes | |
Lectotypes | |
Neotypes | |
Isotypes |
Types with images | 8,009,255 |
Specimen labels transcribed | 1.18M |
Fieldnotes pages transcribed | 219,312 |
Volunteers | 12,071 |
Expeditions active | 353 |
Expeditions completed | 656 |
Total expeditions | 6,419 |
Conservation status
Status | # species |
---|---|
Endangered | 2,408 |
Near Threatened | 277 |
Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
Extinct | 170 |
Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia | 15.13M |
Department of Planning,... | 14.54M |
Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.15M |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.23M |
OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.59M |
South Australia, Department for... | 3.84M |
NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
Questagame | 440,437 |
Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
Nature map | 324,652 |
Nature mapr | 308,928 |
Bio collect | 221,746 |
Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
Fungimap | 180,616 |
Citizen Science - ALA Website | 129,951 |
European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
Feral scan | 116,524 |
Australian Seedbank Partnership | 110,443 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 97,702 |
Climate watch | 93,613 |
Digi vol | 92,571 |
Flickr | 61,027 |
University of Adelaide | 56,490 |
CSIRO National Fish Collection | 50,562 |
Barcode of Life | 35,694 |
Wolli Creek Preservation Society | 33,415 |
Reef watch - Great Victorian... | 16,457 |
Coral Reef Research | 13,867 |
Not supplied | 67.94M |
Records by institution
Australian Museum | 1.56M |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | 1.07M |
Centre for Australian National... | 1.06M |
Museums Victoria | 1.03M |
Queensland Museum | 902,865 |
Western Australia, Department... | 856,230 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 785,221 |
Queensland Department of... | 785,155 |
Department for Environment and... | 741,377 |
South Australian Museum | 568,962 |
Western Australian Museum | 555,176 |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 496,532 |
Commonwealth Scientific and... | 442,219 |
Landcare Research NZ Ltd | 409,086 |
NSW Department of Primary... | 359,337 |
Auckland War Memorial Museum | 302,044 |
Department of Environment and... | 287,162 |
Museum and Art Gallery of the... | 250,375 |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... | 215,572 |
Australian Tropical Herbarium | 196,076 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 134,197 |
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... | 117,507 |
University of New England | 91,845 |
Canterbury Museum | 48,992 |
The University of Melbourne | 33,038 |
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... | 29,740 |
Scion | 28,934 |
Australian National Botanic Gardens | 28,295 |
James Cook University | 26,702 |
University of New South Wales | 24,075 |
Not supplied | 119.79M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 101.95M | Monocots | 7.65M |
Birds | 77.23M | Insects | 6.16M |
Plants | 26.39M | Fishes | 5.69M |
Flowering plants | 24.37M | Mammals | 4.42M |
Dicots | 16.72M | Fungi | 2.33M |
Arthropods | 8.43M | Reptiles | 1.73M |
Monocots | 7.65M | Amphibians | 1.53M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded | 2.36M events | 101.56B records |
Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
Scientific research | 427,591 events | 16.05B records |
Ecological research | 409,728 events | 6.55B records |
Education | 46,997 events | 4.56B records |
Collection management | 34,823 events | 754.24M records |
Environmental assessment | 29,503 events | 2.28B records |
Citizen science | 20,796 events | 1.41B records |
Biosecurity management/planning | 11,081 events | 784.38M records |
Conservation management/planning | 10,733 events | 1.11B records |
Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,320 events | 290.27M records |
Species modelling | 6,290 events | 1.03B records |
Restoration/remediation | 2,101 events | 120.49M records |
Other | 71,554 events | 4.76B records |
TOTAL | 2.19M events | 42.92B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 104,572 events | 7.51B records |
Government | 29,200 events | 1.71B records |
Other | 289,072 events | 20.29B records |
Unspecified | 91,664 events | 889.69M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
70,990
Taxa with images | 91,503 |
Species with images | 70,990 |
Subspecies with images | 4,042 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,180 |
Total number of images |