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Occurrence records
records in total.
Basis of records
| Human observation | 120.68M |
| Preserved specimen | 16.02M |
| Machine observation | 3.76M |
| Occurrence | 3.32M |
| Material Sample | 2.19M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
| Latest record | 22 January 2025 |
| Last image added | 17 January 2025 |
| 1600s | 32 |
| 1700s | 13,863 |
| 1800s | 497,023 |
| 1900s | 32.08M |
| 2000s | 108.86M |
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 | 1.65M |
| 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 |
| 15.58M |
307,505
Type specimens
| Holotypes | |
| Lectotypes | |
| Neotypes | |
| Isotypes |
| Types with images | 10,527,451 |
DNA barcode data 
| Records | 606,922 |
| Species | 37,557 |
| Countries | 220 |
| Institutions | 790 |
| Pages | 62.55M |
| Volumes | 313,986 |
| Titles | 196,374 |
| 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 | 2,446 |
| 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,... | 14.70M |
| Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.25M |
| Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.24M |
| OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.70M |
| South Australia, Department for... | 4.00M |
| NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
| Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
| Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
| Global Biodiversity Information... | 1.13M |
| Questagame | 446,036 |
| Nature mapr | 369,987 |
| Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
| Nature map | 324,652 |
| Bio collect | 245,746 |
| Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
| Fungimap | 148,560 |
| Feral scan | 128,557 |
| Australian Seedbank Partnership | 121,971 |
| European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
| 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 |
| Not supplied | 81.23M |
Records by institution
| Australian Museum | 1.56M |
| Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | 1.09M |
| Centre for Australian National... | 1.06M |
| Museums Victoria | 1.03M |
| Queensland Museum | 905,002 |
| Western Australia, Department... | 863,897 |
| The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 796,972 |
| Department for Environment and... | 758,280 |
| Queensland Department of... | 730,562 |
| Western Australian Museum | 675,989 |
| South Australian Museum | 573,941 |
| Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 526,268 |
| Landcare Research NZ Ltd | 465,268 |
| 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... | 252,397 |
| 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 | 29,245 |
| James Cook University | 26,710 |
| Queensland Department of... | 24,638 |
| Not supplied | 134.39M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
| Animals | 114.31M | Monocots | 8.06M |
| Birds | 87.55M | Insects | 6.98M |
| Plants | 28.20M | Fishes | 5.84M |
| Flowering plants | 26.07M | Mammals | 4.78M |
| Dicots | 18.01M | Fungi | 2.64M |
| Arthropods | 9.44M | Reptiles | 1.88M |
| Monocots | 8.06M | Amphibians | 1.64M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
| Records downloaded | 2.54M events | 111.72B records |
| Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
| Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
| Scientific research | 558,822 events | 20.71B records |
| Ecological research | 435,069 events | 6.99B records |
| Education | 53,834 events | 5.31B records |
| Collection management | 35,155 events | 767.79M records |
| Environmental assessment | 33,073 events | 3.17B records |
| Citizen science | 21,882 events | 1.85B records |
| Conservation management/planning | 12,972 events | 2.37B records |
| Biosecurity management/planning | 11,651 events | 920.47M records |
| Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,930 events | 296.35M records |
| Species modelling | 8,268 events | 1.63B records |
| Restoration/remediation | 2,258 events | 157.04M records |
| Other | 72,406 events | 5.06B records |
| TOTAL | 2.37M events | 52.48B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
| Education | 136,321 events | 9.40B records |
| Government | 36,792 events | 3.56B records |
| Other | 427,389 events | 26.30B records |
| Unspecified | 91,671 events | 889.69M records |
| TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
76,703
| Taxa with images | 98,907 |
| Species with images | 76,703 |
| Subspecies with images | 4,334 |
| Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
| Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,540 |
| Total number of images | 21,288,264 |