Occurrence records

150,124,882

records in total.

10,564 Data sets
• Description only 164

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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
341,558 Type specimens
Holotypes
Lectotypes
Neotypes
Isotypes
Types with images 11,015,789

DNA barcode data
Records606,922
Species37,557
Countries220
Institutions790
Pages 62.75M
Volumes316,038
Titles197,191
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 2,448
Near Threatened 589
Least Concern/Unknown 0
Listed under FFG Act 0
Extinct 167
Parent Species (Unofficial) 0
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia 15.13M
Department of Planning,... 14.13M
Ocean Biodiversity Information... 10.25M
Australia's Virtual Herbarium 6.26M
OZCAM (Online Zoological... 5.71M
South Australia, Department for... 4.12M
NSW Bird Atlasers 3.38M
Global Biodiversity Information... 3.00M
Northern Territory Department... 2.24M
Australian Antarctic Data Centre 1.16M
Questagame 467,644
Reef Life Survey 366,171
Nature map 324,652
Nature mapr 318,776
Bio collect 246,627
Australian National Insect... 218,871
Fungimap 148,560
Feral scan 133,477
Australian Seedbank Partnership 121,971
European Molecular Biology... 118,898
Field data / Biological Data... 97,702
Climate watch 93,603
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
Not supplied 81.69M

Records by institution
Australian Museum 1.56M
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria 1.09M
Centre for Australian National... 1.06M
Museums Victoria 1.03M
Queensland Museum 905,237
Western Australia, Department... 865,898
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... 796,972
Department for Environment and... 758,947
Queensland Department of... 730,562
Western Australian Museum 660,052
South Australian Museum 573,941
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 529,891
Landcare Research NZ Ltd 468,506
Commonwealth Scientific and... 442,219
NSW Department of Primary... 359,335
Auckland War Memorial Museum 316,011
Department of Environment and... 289,493
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... 253,894
Museum and Art Gallery of the... 250,375
Australian Tropical Herbarium 196,219
Field data / Biological Data... 134,197
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... 125,620
University of New England 91,845
Canterbury Museum 48,992
The University of Melbourne 36,610
Scion 33,686
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... 29,740
Australian National Botanic Gardens 29,245
James Cook University 26,710
Queensland Department of... 24,638
Not supplied 136.27M

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Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded 2.58M events 113.90B records
Records viewed 67.12M events 67.12M records
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research 1.11M events 3.24B records
Scientific research 585,130 events 21.62B records
Ecological research 444,514 events 7.27B records
Education 54,478 events 5.38B records
Collection management 35,200 events 795.18M records
Environmental assessment 33,596 events 3.50B records
Citizen science 22,083 events 1.94B records
Conservation management/planning 13,247 events 2.49B records
Biosecurity management/planning 11,738 events 921.79M records
Systematic research/taxonomy 9,006 events 296.53M records
Species modelling 8,514 events 1.65B records
Restoration/remediation 2,282 events 157.13M records
Other 72,536 events 5.17B records
TOTAL 2.41M events 54.44B records

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Occurrence downloads by user type
Education142,659 events 9.80B records
Government37,424 events 3.73B records
Other459,963 events 27.83B records
Unspecified91,672 events889.69M records
TOTAL events records
Species images   77,186
Taxa with images99,671
Species with images77,186
Subspecies with images4,371
Taxa with images from
DigiVol
616
Taxa with images from
citizen science
36,091
Total number of images22,336,657