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Occurrence records
records in total.
3,175
Data sets
Institutions | 890 |
Collections | 206 |
Data Resources | 1,188 |
• Data Available | 1,106 |
• Description only | 82 |
Species List sets | 1,914 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 99.27M |
Preserved specimen | 15.52M |
Observation | 5.34M |
OCCURRENCE | 5.21M |
Machine observation | 2.87M |
147
Collections
Click on a Collection for details:
Records by date
Latest record | 24 September 2023 |
Last image added | 19 September 2023 |
1600s | 50 |
1700s | 24,037 |
1800s | 470,476 |
1900s | 29.61M |
2000s | 91.81M |
National Species Lists
Accepted names | 195,424 |
Synonyms | 146,974 |
Species names | 152,080 |
Species with records | 111,566 |
154
Spatial layers
Contextual layers | 91 |
Environmental/grided layers | 63 |
Terrestrial layers | 141 |
Marine layers | 8 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie | 1.92M |
Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.44M |
Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail | 1.24M |
Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena - Welcome Swallow | 1.14M |
Eolophus roseicapilla - Galah | 1.08M |
Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.05M |
11.71M |
251,363
Type specimens
Holotypes | |
Lectotypes | |
Neotypes | |
Isotypes |
Types with images | 6,847,887 |
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 | 2,074 |
Near Threatened | 0 |
Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
Extinct | 162 |
Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia | 15.13M |
Department of Planning,... | 14.35M |
Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 8.99M |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.13M |
OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.56M |
South Australia, Department for... | 3.78M |
NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
Questagame | 426,019 |
Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
Nature map | 324,652 |
Nature mapr | 223,084 |
Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
Bio collect | 190,649 |
Fungimap | 180,616 |
Citizen Science - ALA Website | 128,505 |
European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
Feral scan | 109,416 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 97,702 |
Climate watch | 93,613 |
Digi vol | 92,571 |
Australian Seedbank Partnership | 84,539 |
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... | 14,497 |
Coral Reef Research | 13,867 |
Not supplied | 66.58M |
Records by institution
Australian Museum | 1.56M |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | 1.05M |
Centre for Australian National... | 1.05M |
Museums Victoria | 1.02M |
Queensland Museum | 897,555 |
Western Australia, Department... | 850,471 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 785,221 |
Department of Environment,... | 740,393 |
Queensland Department of... | 730,369 |
South Australian Museum | 568,962 |
Western Australian Museum | 555,176 |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 488,994 |
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 | 194,849 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 134,197 |
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... | 112,885 |
University of New England | 91,845 |
Canterbury Museum | 48,992 |
The University of Melbourne | 29,215 |
Scion | 28,934 |
James Cook University | 26,680 |
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... | 24,411 |
University of New South Wales | 24,075 |
Australian Antarctic Division | 18,473 |
Not supplied | 116.87M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 100.05M | Monocots | 7.28M |
Birds | 76.78M | Insects | 5.74M |
Plants | 25.58M | Fishes | 5.04M |
Angiosperms | 23.58M | Mammals | 4.30M |
Dicots | 16.30M | Fungi | 2.27M |
Arthropods | 8.04M | Reptiles | 1.67M |
Monocots | 7.28M | Crustaceans | 1.54M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded | 2.26M events | 96.76B records |
Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
Ecological research | 398,122 events | 6.30B records |
Scientific research | 348,927 events | 13.28B records |
Education | 45,283 events | 4.05B records |
Collection management | 34,637 events | 737.79M records |
Environmental assessment | 27,937 events | 2.08B records |
Citizen science | 20,209 events | 1.35B records |
Biosecurity management/planning | 10,886 events | 775.19M records |
Conservation management/planning | 9,636 events | 1.01B records |
Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,027 events | 288.80M records |
Species modelling | 5,190 events | 971.30M records |
Restoration/remediation | 1,962 events | 119.05M records |
Other | 68,347 events | 4.56B records |
TOTAL | 2.09M events | 38.75B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 84,284 events | 6.29B records |
Government | 15,912 events | 1.49B records |
Other | 218,399 events | 17.07B records |
Unspecified | 91,657 events | 888.99M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
69,996
Taxa with images | 91,041 |
Species with images | 69,996 |
Subspecies with images | 4,096 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 646 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,467 |
Total number of images |