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Occurrence records
records in total.
10,753
Data sets
Institutions | 1,001 |
Collections | 205 |
Data Resources | 1,559 |
• Data Available | 1,395 |
• Description only | 164 |
Species List sets | 9,101 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 121.14M |
Preserved specimen | 17.05M |
Machine observation | 3.83M |
Occurrence | 3.35M |
Material Sample | 2.72M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
Latest record | 22 April 2025 |
Last image added | 7 April 2025 |
1600s | 36 |
1700s | 14,107 |
1800s | 535,323 |
1900s | 31.86M |
2000s | 110.73M |
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 | 2.22M |
Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.66M |
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 |
16.65M |
344,713
Type specimens
Holotypes | |
Lectotypes | |
Neotypes | |
Isotypes |
Types with images | 11,193,467 |
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 | 2,450 |
Near Threatened | 589 |
Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
Extinct | 167 |
Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia | 15.13M |
Department of Planning,... | 14.20M |
Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.25M |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.27M |
OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.72M |
South Australia, Department for... | 4.12M |
NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
Global Biodiversity Information... | 3.00M |
Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
Questagame | 469,038 |
Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
Nature map | 324,652 |
Nature mapr | 323,387 |
Bio collect | 246,626 |
Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
Fungimap | 148,560 |
Feral scan | 134,575 |
Australian Seedbank Partnership | 121,971 |
European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 97,702 |
Climate watch | 93,603 |
Digi vol | 92,571 |
Flickr | 61,027 |
University of Adelaide | 56,490 |
CSIRO National Fish Collection | 55,301 |
Barcode of Life | 35,694 |
Wolli Creek Preservation Society | 33,415 |
Reef watch - Great Victorian... | 16,493 |
Coral Reef Research | 13,867 |
Not supplied | 81.87M |
Records by institution
Australian Museum | 1.56M |
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | 1.09M |
Centre for Australian National... | 1.06M |
Museums Victoria | 1.04M |
Queensland Museum | 905,237 |
Western Australia, Department... | 866,635 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 808,544 |
Department for Environment and... | 759,009 |
Queensland Department of... | 730,562 |
Western Australian Museum | 660,052 |
South Australian Museum | 573,941 |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 529,891 |
Landcare Research NZ Ltd | 469,743 |
Commonwealth Scientific and... | 452,153 |
NSW Department of Primary... | 359,335 |
Auckland War Memorial Museum | 318,743 |
Department of Environment and... | 289,493 |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... | 254,333 |
Museum and Art Gallery of the... | 250,375 |
Australian Tropical Herbarium | 196,219 |
Field data / Biological Data... | 134,197 |
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... | 125,620 |
University of New England | 91,845 |
Canterbury Museum | 48,992 |
Massey University | 41,064 |
The University of Melbourne | 37,043 |
Scion | 34,016 |
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... | 29,740 |
Australian National Botanic Gardens | 29,245 |
James Cook University | 26,710 |
Not supplied | 136.50M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 115.32M | Monocots | 8.23M |
Birds | 87.11M | Insects | 7.67M |
Plants | 29.06M | Fishes | 5.92M |
Flowering plants | 26.80M | Mammals | 4.99M |
Dicots | 18.57M | Fungi | 2.75M |
Arthropods | 10.22M | Reptiles | 1.95M |
Monocots | 8.23M | Molluscs | 1.71M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded | 2.59M events | 114.91B records |
Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
Scientific research | 590,416 events | 22.01B records |
Ecological research | 444,629 events | 7.28B records |
Education | 55,105 events | 5.47B records |
Collection management | 35,220 events | 795.21M records |
Environmental assessment | 33,765 events | 3.57B records |
Citizen science | 22,153 events | 1.98B records |
Conservation management/planning | 13,377 events | 2.53B records |
Biosecurity management/planning | 11,745 events | 921.81M records |
Systematic research/taxonomy | 9,026 events | 297.92M records |
Species modelling | 8,627 events | 1.66B records |
Restoration/remediation | 2,290 events | 157.15M records |
Other | 72,639 events | 5.26B records |
TOTAL | 2.41M events | 55.17B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 145,698 events | 10.32B records |
Government | 37,564 events | 3.83B records |
Other | 464,508 events | 28.18B records |
Unspecified | 91,673 events | 889.69M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
77,710
Taxa with images | 100,314 |
Species with images | 77,710 |
Subspecies with images | 4,439 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 36,108 |
Total number of images |