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Occurrence records
records in total.
10,015
Data sets
Institutions | 1,001 |
Collections | 205 |
Data Resources | 1,488 |
• Data Available | 1,239 |
• Description only | 249 |
Species List sets | 8,434 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 121.16M |
Preserved specimen | 16.72M |
Machine observation | 3.82M |
Occurrence | 3.34M |
Material Sample | 2.70M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
Latest record | 12 February 2025 |
Last image added | 12 February 2025 |
1600s | 33 |
1700s | 14,048 |
1800s | 518,686 |
1900s | 32.55M |
2000s | 109.81M |
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 |
16.39M |
330,595
Type specimens
Holotypes | |
Lectotypes | |
Neotypes | |
Isotypes |
Types with images | 10,694,790 |
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 | 2,444 |
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,... | 14.79M |
Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.25M |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.25M |
OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.70M |
South Australia, Department for... | 4.00M |
NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
Global Biodiversity Information... | 2.68M |
Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
Questagame | 446,036 |
Nature mapr | 367,768 |
Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
Nature map | 324,652 |
Bio collect | 246,102 |
Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
Fungimap | 148,560 |
Feral scan | 129,942 |
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 | 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 | 81.40M |
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 | 905,237 |
Western Australia, Department... | 864,153 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 796,972 |
Department for Environment and... | 758,280 |
Queensland Department of... | 730,562 |
Western Australian Museum | 676,114 |
South Australian Museum | 573,941 |
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 526,268 |
Landcare Research NZ Ltd | 467,183 |
Commonwealth Scientific and... | 442,219 |
NSW Department of Primary... | 359,335 |
Auckland War Memorial Museum | 312,553 |
Department of Environment and... | 289,493 |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... | 253,896 |
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 | 136.20M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 115.50M | Monocots | 8.15M |
Birds | 87.74M | Insects | 7.50M |
Plants | 28.65M | Fishes | 5.88M |
Flowering plants | 26.45M | Mammals | 4.86M |
Dicots | 18.30M | Fungi | 2.69M |
Arthropods | 10.02M | Reptiles | 1.91M |
Monocots | 8.15M | Molluscs | 1.67M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded | 2.55M events | 112.22B records |
Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
Scientific research | 566,714 events | 20.86B records |
Ecological research | 435,103 events | 7.00B records |
Education | 53,888 events | 5.31B records |
Collection management | 35,161 events | 767.99M records |
Environmental assessment | 33,192 events | 3.40B records |
Citizen science | 21,917 events | 1.86B records |
Conservation management/planning | 13,006 events | 2.37B records |
Biosecurity management/planning | 11,655 events | 920.48M records |
Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,946 events | 296.36M records |
Species modelling | 8,365 events | 1.64B records |
Restoration/remediation | 2,264 events | 157.07M records |
Other | 72,427 events | 5.15B records |
TOTAL | 2.38M events | 52.97B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 136,470 events | 9.43B records |
Government | 36,876 events | 3.62B records |
Other | 435,519 events | 26.72B records |
Unspecified | 91,671 events | 889.69M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
76,871
Taxa with images | 99,081 |
Species with images | 76,871 |
Subspecies with images | 4,345 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,530 |
Total number of images | 21,634,620 |