Occurrence records

146,061,745

records in total.

8,727 Data sets
• Description only 74

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Basis of records

147 Collections

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Records by date
National Species Lists
Accepted names195,424
Synonyms146,974
Species names152,080
Species with records111,566
193 Spatial layers
Contextual layers 126
Environmental/grided layers 67
Terrestrial layers 176
Marine layers 10

Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
261,390 Type specimens
Holotypes
Lectotypes
Neotypes
Isotypes
Types with images 9,937,755

DNA barcode data
Records606,922
Species37,557
Countries220
Institutions790
Pages 62.43M
Volumes312,600
Titles196,052
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 2,438
Near Threatened 592
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,... 14.46M
Ocean Biodiversity Information... 10.24M
Australia's Virtual Herbarium 6.24M
OZCAM (Online Zoological... 5.70M
South Australia, Department for... 3.88M
NSW Bird Atlasers 3.38M
Northern Territory Department... 2.24M
Australian Antarctic Data Centre 1.16M
Questagame 446,036
Reef Life Survey 366,171
Nature mapr 346,776
Nature map 324,652
Bio collect 241,041
Australian National Insect... 218,871
Fungimap 148,560
Feral scan 125,677
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 80.61M

Records by institution
Australian Museum 1.56M
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria 1.08M
Centre for Australian National... 1.06M
Museums Victoria 1.03M
Queensland Museum 904,470
Western Australia, Department... 861,982
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... 796,972
Department for Environment and... 756,487
Queensland Department of... 730,562
Western Australian Museum 617,970
South Australian Museum 568,962
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 526,268
Landcare Research NZ Ltd 462,440
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... 253,220
Museum and Art Gallery of the... 250,375
Australian Tropical Herbarium 196,219
Field data / Biological Data... 134,197
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... 121,926
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 28,295
James Cook University 26,710
University of New South Wales 24,075
Not supplied 132.31M

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Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded 2.51M events 109.38B records
Records viewed 67.12M events 67.12M records
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research 1.11M events 3.24B records
Scientific research 534,723 events 19.36B records
Ecological research 434,485 events 6.91B records
Education 53,543 events 5.28B records
Collection management 35,128 events 767.54M records
Environmental assessment 32,448 events 3.12B records
Citizen science 21,636 events 1.66B records
Conservation management/planning 12,638 events 2.01B records
Biosecurity management/planning 11,522 events 915.66M records
Systematic research/taxonomy 8,836 events 295.57M records
Species modelling 8,038 events 1.56B records
Restoration/remediation 2,217 events 155.87M records
Other 72,222 events 4.93B records
TOTAL 2.34M events 50.21B records

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Occurrence downloads by user type
Education130,209 events 8.74B records
Government35,267 events 3.06B records
Other407,691 events 25.18B records
Unspecified91,668 events889.69M records
TOTAL events records
Species images   76,918
Taxa with images99,100
Species with images76,918
Subspecies with images4,315
Taxa with images from
DigiVol
616
Taxa with images from
citizen science
35,535
Total number of images20,068,004