Occurrence records

146,188,917

records in total.

8,909 Data sets
• Description only 73

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Basis of records

147 Collections

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Records by date
National Species Lists
Accepted names195,424
Synonyms146,974
Species names152,080
Species with records111,566
192 Spatial layers
Contextual layers 125
Environmental/grided layers 67
Terrestrial layers 175
Marine layers 10

Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
261,377 Type specimens
Holotypes
Lectotypes
Neotypes
Isotypes
Types with images 10,058,735

DNA barcode data
Records606,922
Species37,557
Countries220
Institutions790
Pages 62.43M
Volumes312,610
Titles196,057
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 2,439
Near Threatened 595
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,... 14.46M
Ocean Biodiversity Information... 10.24M
Australia's Virtual Herbarium 6.24M
OZCAM (Online Zoological... 5.70M
South Australia, Department for... 3.88M
NSW Bird Atlasers 3.38M
Northern Territory Department... 2.24M
Australian Antarctic Data Centre 1.16M
Questagame 446,036
Reef Life Survey 366,171
Nature mapr 351,348
Nature map 324,652
Bio collect 242,037
Australian National Insect... 218,871
Fungimap 148,560
Feral scan 126,208
European Molecular Biology... 118,898
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... 16,493
Coral Reef Research 13,867
Gang-gang cockatoo survey 13,441
Not supplied 80.73M

Records by institution
Australian Museum 1.56M
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria 1.08M
Centre for Australian National... 1.06M
Museums Victoria 1.03M
Queensland Museum 904,521
Western Australia, Department... 862,372
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... 796,972
Department for Environment and... 756,597
Queensland Department of... 730,562
Western Australian Museum 617,970
South Australian Museum 568,962
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 526,268
Landcare Research NZ Ltd 462,440
Commonwealth Scientific and... 442,219
NSW Department of Primary... 359,335
Auckland War Memorial Museum 314,250
Department of Environment and... 289,493
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... 253,220
Museum and Art Gallery of the... 250,375
Australian Tropical Herbarium 196,219
Field data / Biological Data... 134,197
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... 124,396
University of New England 91,845
Canterbury Museum 48,992
The University of Melbourne 35,040
Scion 33,686
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... 29,740
Australian National Botanic Gardens 28,295
James Cook University 26,710
University of New South Wales 24,075
Not supplied 132.44M

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Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded 2.52M events 110.11B records
Records viewed 67.12M events 67.12M records
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research 1.11M events 3.24B records
Scientific research 537,938 events 19.77B records
Ecological research 434,532 events 6.92B records
Education 53,627 events 5.29B records
Collection management 35,136 events 767.55M records
Environmental assessment 32,563 events 3.12B records
Citizen science 21,668 events 1.66B records
Conservation management/planning 12,708 events 2.24B records
Biosecurity management/planning 11,531 events 915.72M records
Systematic research/taxonomy 8,840 events 295.58M records
Species modelling 8,075 events 1.57B records
Restoration/remediation 2,223 events 156.00M records
Other 72,255 events 4.99B records
TOTAL 2.34M events 50.93B records

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Occurrence downloads by user type
Education131,939 events 8.92B records
Government35,402 events 3.31B records
Other409,751 events 25.46B records
Unspecified91,668 events889.69M records
TOTAL events records
Species images   77,140
Taxa with images99,308
Species with images77,140
Subspecies with images4,317
Taxa with images from
DigiVol
616
Taxa with images from
citizen science
35,527
Total number of images