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Occurrence records
records in total.
8,909
Data sets
Institutions | 998 |
Collections | 204 |
Data Resources | 1,229 |
• Data Available | 1,156 |
• Description only | 73 |
Species List sets | 7,595 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 119.81M |
Preserved specimen | 15.51M |
Machine observation | 3.76M |
Occurrence | 3.18M |
Observation | 1.77M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
Latest record | 20 November 2024 |
Last image added | 14 November 2024 |
1600s | 34 |
1700s | 13,216 |
1800s | 458,110 |
1900s | 31.72M |
2000s | 107.48M |
National Species Lists
Accepted names | 195,424 |
Synonyms | 146,974 |
Species names | 152,080 |
Species with records | 111,566 |
192
Spatial layers
Contextual layers | 125 |
Environmental/grided layers | 67 |
Terrestrial layers | 175 |
Marine layers | 10 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie | 2.21M |
Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.65M |
Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail | 1.41M |
Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena - Welcome Swallow | 1.33M |
Eolophus roseicapilla - Galah | 1.23M |
Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.22M |
14.81M |
261,377
Type specimens
Holotypes | |
Lectotypes | |
Neotypes | |
Isotypes |
Types with images | 10,058,735 |
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 |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 113.41M | Monocots | 7.89M |
Birds | 87.36M | Insects | 6.64M |
Plants | 27.57M | Fishes | 5.81M |
Flowering plants | 25.47M | Mammals | 4.62M |
Dicots | 17.58M | Fungi | 2.45M |
Arthropods | 9.06M | Reptiles | 1.84M |
Monocots | 7.89M | Amphibians | 1.63M |
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 |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 131,939 events | 8.92B records |
Government | 35,402 events | 3.31B records |
Other | 409,751 events | 25.46B records |
Unspecified | 91,668 events | 889.69M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
77,140
Taxa with images | 99,308 |
Species with images | 77,140 |
Subspecies with images | 4,317 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,527 |
Total number of images |