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10,571
Data sets
| Institutions | 1,001 |
| Collections | 205 |
| Data Resources | 1,556 |
| • Data Available | 1,392 |
| • Description only | 164 |
| Species List sets | 8,922 |
| Document sets | 4 |
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147
Collections
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Records by date
| Latest record | 2 April 2025 |
| Last image added | 26 December 1978 |
| 1600s | 36 |
| 1700s | 14,105 |
| 1800s | 529,707 |
| 1900s | 31.83M |
| 2000s | 110.51M |
National Species Lists
| Accepted names | 195,424 |
| Synonyms | 146,974 |
| Species names | 152,080 |
| Species with records | 111,566 |
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Spatial layers
| Contextual layers | 125 |
| Environmental/grided layers | 67 |
| Terrestrial layers | 175 |
| Marine layers | 10 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
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DNA barcode data 
| Records | 606,922 |
| Species | 37,557 |
| Countries | 220 |
| Institutions | 790 |
| Pages | 62.86M |
| Volumes | 316,519 |
| Titles | 197,191 |
| 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 |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
| Animals | 115.20M | Monocots | 8.20M |
| Birds | 87.08M | Insects | 7.62M |
| Plants | 28.93M | Fishes | 5.91M |
| Flowering plants | 26.68M | Mammals | 4.98M |
| Dicots | 18.48M | Fungi | 2.74M |
| Arthropods | 10.17M | Reptiles | 1.94M |
| Monocots | 8.20M | Molluscs | 1.71M |
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 | 585,527 events | 21.63B records |
| Ecological research | 444,514 events | 7.27B records |
| Education | 54,480 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 |
Occurrence downloads by user type
| Education | 143,062 events | 9.81B records |
| Government | 37,424 events | 3.73B records |
| Other | 459,967 events | 27.83B records |
| Unspecified | 91,672 events | 889.69M records |
| TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
77,198
| Taxa with images | 99,628 |
| Species with images | 77,198 |
| Subspecies with images | 4,374 |
| Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
| Taxa with images from citizen science | 36,091 |
| Total number of images | 22,339,049 |