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Occurrence records
records in total.
Basis of records
| Human observation | 120.87M |
| Preserved specimen | 16.98M |
| Machine observation | 3.83M |
| Occurrence | 3.35M |
| Material Sample | 2.72M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
| Latest record | 26 March 2025 |
| Last image added | 18 March 2025 |
| 1600s | 36 |
| 1700s | 14,104 |
| 1800s | 529,335 |
| 1900s | 31.82M |
| 2000s | 110.44M |
National Species Lists
| Accepted names | 195,424 |
| Synonyms | 146,974 |
| Species names | 152,080 |
| Species with records | 111,566 |
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Spatial layers
| Contextual layers | 125 |
| Environmental/grided layers | 67 |
| Terrestrial layers | 175 |
| Marine layers | 10 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
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DNA barcode data 
| Records | 606,922 |
| Species | 37,557 |
| Countries | 220 |
| Institutions | 790 |
| Pages | 62.71M |
| Volumes | 315,726 |
| Titles | 197,012 |
| 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 | 2,448 |
| Near Threatened | 589 |
| Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
| Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
| Extinct | 167 |
| Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
| Animals | 115.16M | Monocots | 8.20M |
| Birds | 87.07M | Insects | 7.61M |
| Plants | 28.90M | Fishes | 5.91M |
| Flowering plants | 26.65M | Mammals | 4.98M |
| Dicots | 18.46M | Fungi | 2.73M |
| Arthropods | 10.15M | Reptiles | 1.94M |
| Monocots | 8.20M | Molluscs | 1.71M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
| Records downloaded | 2.58M events | 113.74B records |
| Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
| Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
| Scientific research | 582,520 events | 21.58B records |
| Ecological research | 444,506 events | 7.27B records |
| Education | 54,439 events | 5.38B records |
| Collection management | 35,199 events | 795.18M records |
| Environmental assessment | 33,581 events | 3.46B records |
| Citizen science | 22,080 events | 1.94B records |
| Conservation management/planning | 13,235 events | 2.48B records |
| Biosecurity management/planning | 11,737 events | 921.78M records |
| Systematic research/taxonomy | 9,004 events | 296.49M records |
| Species modelling | 8,504 events | 1.65B records |
| Restoration/remediation | 2,279 events | 157.11M records |
| Other | 72,527 events | 5.17B records |
| TOTAL | 2.40M events | 54.35B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
| Education | 141,032 events | 9.71B records |
| Government | 37,403 events | 3.73B records |
| Other | 458,572 events | 27.77B records |
| Unspecified | 91,672 events | 889.69M records |
| TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
77,200
| Taxa with images | 99,771 |
| Species with images | 77,200 |
| Subspecies with images | 4,374 |
| Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
| Taxa with images from citizen science | 36,091 |
| Total number of images | 22,241,859 |