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Occurrence records
records in total.
6,046
Data sets
| Institutions | 955 |
| Collections | 204 |
| Data Resources | 1,207 |
| • Data Available | 1,133 |
| • Description only | 74 |
| Species List sets | 4,755 |
| Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
| Human observation | 101.55M |
| Preserved specimen | 15.72M |
| Observation | 5.33M |
| Occurrence | 5.20M |
| Machine observation | 3.73M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
| Latest record | 16 April 2024 |
| Last image added | 4 December 2021 |
| 1600s | 39 |
| 1700s | 24,096 |
| 1800s | 474,573 |
| 1900s | 31.29M |
| 2000s | 94.81M |
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 |
| 13.96M |
258,268
Type specimens
| Holotypes | |
| Lectotypes | |
| Neotypes | |
| Isotypes |
| Types with images | 8,216,616 |
DNA barcode data 
| Records | 606,922 |
| Species | 37,557 |
| Countries | 220 |
| Institutions | 790 |
| Pages | 61.93M |
| Volumes | 309,446 |
| Titles | 194,971 |
| 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 | 2,409 |
| 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,... | 14.58M |
| Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.15M |
| Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.24M |
| OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.66M |
| South Australia, Department for... | 3.84M |
| NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
| Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
| Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
| Questagame | 442,611 |
| Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
| Nature map | 324,652 |
| Nature mapr | 314,732 |
| Bio collect | 223,347 |
| Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
| Fungimap | 180,616 |
| dp31 | 129,987 |
| European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
| Feral scan | 118,121 |
| 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 |
| Not supplied | 68.18M |
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 | 902,881 |
| Western Australia, Department... | 856,766 |
| The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 785,221 |
| Queensland Department of... | 785,155 |
| Department for Environment and... | 741,377 |
| Western Australian Museum | 617,970 |
| South Australian Museum | 568,962 |
| 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 | 196,159 |
| Field data / Biological Data... | 134,197 |
| Queen Victoria Museum and Art... | 119,492 |
| 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 | 26,704 |
| University of New South Wales | 24,075 |
| Not supplied | 120.10M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
| Animals | 102.20M | Monocots | 7.66M |
| Birds | 77.26M | Insects | 6.24M |
| Plants | 26.48M | Fishes | 5.70M |
| Flowering plants | 24.45M | Mammals | 4.44M |
| Dicots | 16.79M | Fungi | 2.35M |
| Arthropods | 8.58M | Reptiles | 1.75M |
| Monocots | 7.66M | Amphibians | 1.54M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
| Records downloaded | 2.39M events | 102.49B records |
| Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
| Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
| Scientific research | 444,974 events | 16.42B records |
| Ecological research | 410,489 events | 6.57B records |
| Education | 47,798 events | 4.77B records |
| Collection management | 34,852 events | 754.49M records |
| Environmental assessment | 29,876 events | 2.30B records |
| Citizen science | 20,919 events | 1.47B records |
| Biosecurity management/planning | 11,169 events | 785.62M records |
| Conservation management/planning | 11,026 events | 1.18B records |
| Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,452 events | 290.64M records |
| Species modelling | 6,429 events | 1.03B records |
| Restoration/remediation | 2,118 events | 120.90M records |
| Other | 71,638 events | 4.82B records |
| TOTAL | 2.21M events | 43.75B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
| Education | 109,068 events | 7.59B records |
| Government | 29,740 events | 1.79B records |
| Other | 305,434 events | 21.02B records |
| Unspecified | 91,665 events | 889.69M records |
| TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
71,197
| Taxa with images | 91,722 |
| Species with images | 71,197 |
| Subspecies with images | 4,053 |
| Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
| Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,219 |
| Total number of images | 16,849,649 |