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Occurrence records

39,025,281

records in total.

We estimate the number of potential duplicate records to be 5,078,752.

502 Data sets

Harvested websites168
Occurrence record sets244
Document sets30
Uploaded record sets60

Most recently added dataset is
Testing – Mr. Stewart’s familiar listing

Much of the content in the Atlas, such as occurrence records, environmental data, images and the conservation status of species, comes from data sets provided by collecting institutions, individual collectors and community groups.

The data sets are listed on the Atlas Datasets page. They can be searched and browsed by category.

This infographic shows the number of datasets for the four major categories.

Basis of records

Human observation 29.14M
Preserved specimen 8.33M
Machine observation 321,614
Genomic DNA 154,529
Living specimen 59,890
Fossil specimen 22,114
Image 19,939
Nomenclatural checklist
5,923
Sound
4,557
Literature
575

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147 Collections

Records by date

Latest record14 May 2013
Last image added2 October 2012
1600s25
1700s4,305
1800s344,610
1900s 18.61M
2000s 16.53M

National Species Lists

Accepted names195,424
Synonyms146,974
Species names152,080
Species with records111,566

388 Spatial layers

Contextual layers70
Environmental/grided layers318
Terrestrial layers358
Marine layers26
Topography13
Marine20
Area Management41
Climate169
Political6
Substrate80
Sensitive Data Layers12
Social15
Fire2
Distance5
Biodiversity15
Vegetation7
Hydrology3

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Records by state and territory

Identify Life

Identification keys:

532

Most recorded species

Cracticus tibicen - Australian Magpie 454,454
Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-lark 366,807
Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail 341,368
Eolophus roseicapillus - Galah 313,409
Zosterops lateralis - Silvereye 281,612
Mirounga leonina - Southern Elephant Seal 278,233

126,480Type specimens

Holotypes23372
Lectotypes778
Neotypes205
Isotypes8
Types with images959
Paratypes89696
Holotype23372
Syntype7606
Type1541
Allotype1376
Paralectotype1328
Lectotype778
Cotype491
Neotype205
Topotype56
Hapantotype21
Isotype8
Allolectotype2
Holotype with image659
Allotype with image91
Syntype with image77
Paratypes with image74
Lectotype with image53
Cotype with image3
Neotype with image2

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Barcode of life

DNA barcode data

Records606,922
Species37,557
Countries220
Institutions790

Biodiversity heritage library

Pages 38.43M
Volumes104,461
Titles55,000

Biodiversity volunteer portal

Specimen labels transcribed26,058
Fieldnotes pages transcribed2,869
Volunteers467
Projects active42
Projects completed15

Conservation status

Status# species
Endangered 3686
Near Threatened 5609
Least Concern/Unknown 442
Listed under FFG Act 11
Extinct 175
Parent Species (Unofficial) 0

Records by data provider

Birds Australia 12.16M
OEH 6.47M
AVH 4.68M
Eremaea 2.63M
OZCAM 2.39M
DEWNR 1.73M
Department of Natural... 1.58M
GBIF 1.01M
Australian Antarctic Data Centre 638,827
Australian National Insect... 193,160
EMBL 118,898
DERM 60,510
University of Adelaide 56,490
Barcode of Life 35,694
CSIRO National Fish Collection 32,043
Flickr 19,939
Coral Reef Research 13,867
Citizen Science - ALA Website 8,610
ECOCEAN 5,345
WCPS 4,801
ALCW 2,441
Chevron Australia 2,048
Kangawalla Pastoral Co Pty Ltd 1,429
Littlewood 467

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Records by institution

Australian Museum 1.06M
CANBR 863,950
RBGMEL 837,991
DEC 742,298
RBGSYD 686,455
DEWNR 644,446
Museum Victoria 519,312
DERM 477,321
CSIRO 348,737
Western Australian Museum 347,877
South Australian Museum 182,860
Department of Arts and Museums 177,414
TMAG 157,568
Australian Tropical Herbarium 96,696
University of Adelaide 56,477
NTM 53,522
Queensland Museum 49,374
QVMAG 41,717
LRM 23,013
DAFF 11,384
BGPA 10,641
PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA 2,519
AWRI 2,262
DPIPWE 1,330
Southern Cross University 503
DPI 145
University of Tasmania 8

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Records by lifeform

Records and species by decade

Occurrence tree

Usage statistics

Records downloaded 34,263 events 519.25M records
Images viewed 1.35M events 10.41M records
Records viewed 846,418 events 846,418 records

Occurrence downloads by reason

Scientific research 34,174 events 112.54M records
Ecological research 14,643 events 40.68M records
Conservation management/planning 11,757 events 56.96M records
Education 9,067 events 25.78M records
Environmental impact, site assessment 6,462 events 93.12M records
Systematic research 1,157 events 1.60M records
Other scientific research 1,114 events 2.14M records
Biosecurity management, planning 1,027 events 2.78M records
Collection management 432 events 1.49M records
Other 45,332 events 144.05M records
TOTAL 125,165 events 481.15M records

Occurrence downloads by user type

Education24,001 events 91.24M records
Government9,495 events 32.31M records
Other42,680 events253.08M records
Unspecified48,628 events100.86M records
TOTAL124,804 events477.50M records

Species Images  34,230

Species with images34230
Subspecies with images1730
Taxa with images from
Biodiversity Volunteer Portal
761
Taxa with images from
citizen science
5291
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