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Occurrence records
records in total.
7,298
Data sets
Institutions | 986 |
Collections | 204 |
Data Resources | 1,219 |
• Data Available | 1,143 |
• Description only | 76 |
Species List sets | 5,995 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 118.31M |
Preserved specimen | 15.91M |
Machine observation | 3.76M |
Occurrence | 3.19M |
Observation | 1.84M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
Latest record | 24 July 2024 |
Last image added | 21 July 2024 |
1600s | 39 |
1700s | 24,655 |
1800s | 495,927 |
1900s | 31.70M |
2000s | 106.05M |
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 | 1.22M |
Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.21M |
14.55M |
262,825
Type specimens
Holotypes | |
Lectotypes | |
Neotypes | |
Isotypes |
Types with images | 9,139,993 |
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 | 1,430 |
Near Threatened | 1,060 |
Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
Extinct | 171 |
Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia | 15.13M |
Department of Planning,... | 14.77M |
Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.17M |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.27M |
OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.64M |
South Australia, Department for... | 3.86M |
NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
Questagame | 447,230 |
Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
Nature mapr | 326,135 |
Nature map | 324,652 |
Bio collect | 233,074 |
Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
Fungimap | 180,616 |
Feral scan | 121,102 |
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 | 79.49M |
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 | 903,938 |
Western Australia, Department... | 859,870 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 796,972 |
Queensland Department of... | 785,155 |
Department for Environment and... | 754,788 |
Western Australian Museum | 617,970 |
South Australian Museum | 568,962 |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 470,196 |
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 of New Zealand Te Papa... | 251,745 |
Museum and Art Gallery of the... | 250,375 |
Australian Tropical Herbarium | 196,219 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 134,197 |
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... | 120,886 |
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 | 26,710 |
University of New South Wales | 24,075 |
Not supplied | 131.50M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 112.92M | Monocots | 7.78M |
Birds | 87.19M | Insects | 6.40M |
Plants | 27.04M | Fishes | 5.74M |
Flowering plants | 24.86M | Mammals | 4.57M |
Dicots | 17.09M | Fungi | 2.45M |
Arthropods | 8.78M | Amphibians | 1.85M |
Monocots | 7.78M | Reptiles | 1.81M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded | 2.46M events | 105.70B records |
Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
Scientific research | 492,025 events | 18.17B records |
Ecological research | 433,497 events | 6.82B records |
Education | 50,012 events | 4.93B records |
Collection management | 35,017 events | 762.72M records |
Environmental assessment | 31,340 events | 2.79B records |
Citizen science | 21,248 events | 1.54B records |
Conservation management/planning | 11,705 events | 1.23B records |
Biosecurity management/planning | 11,413 events | 853.21M records |
Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,634 events | 292.02M records |
Species modelling | 7,031 events | 1.12B records |
Restoration/remediation | 2,148 events | 154.70M records |
Other | 71,899 events | 4.86B records |
TOTAL | 2.29M events | 46.76B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 114,453 events | 7.98B records |
Government | 32,143 events | 2.02B records |
Other | 374,716 events | 23.48B records |
Unspecified | 91,668 events | 889.69M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
75,756
Taxa with images | 97,091 |
Species with images | 75,756 |
Subspecies with images | 4,276 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,411 |
Total number of images | 18,310,037 |