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Occurrence records
records in total.
3,175
Data sets
| Institutions | 890 |
| Collections | 206 |
| Data Resources | 1,188 |
| • Data Available | 1,106 |
| • Description only | 82 |
| Species List sets | 1,914 |
| Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
| Human observation | 99.27M |
| Preserved specimen | 15.52M |
| Observation | 5.34M |
| OCCURRENCE | 5.21M |
| Machine observation | 2.87M |
147
Collections
Click on a Collection for details:
Records by date
| Latest record | 24 September 2023 |
| Last image added | 19 September 2023 |
| 1600s | 50 |
| 1700s | 24,037 |
| 1800s | 470,476 |
| 1900s | 29.61M |
| 2000s | 91.81M |
National Species Lists
| Accepted names | 195,424 |
| Synonyms | 146,974 |
| Species names | 152,080 |
| Species with records | 111,566 |
154
Spatial layers
| Contextual layers | 91 |
| Environmental/grided layers | 63 |
| Terrestrial layers | 141 |
| Marine layers | 8 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
| Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie | 1.92M |
| Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.44M |
| Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail | 1.24M |
| Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena - Welcome Swallow | 1.14M |
| Eolophus roseicapilla - Galah | 1.08M |
| Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.05M |
| 11.71M |
251,363
Type specimens
| Holotypes | |
| Lectotypes | |
| Neotypes | |
| Isotypes |
| Types with images | 6,847,887 |
DNA barcode data 
| Records | 606,922 |
| Species | 37,557 |
| Countries | 220 |
| Institutions | 790 |
| Pages | 61.26M |
| Volumes | 300,869 |
| Titles | 188,853 |
| 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 | 2,074 |
| Near Threatened | 0 |
| Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
| Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
| Extinct | 162 |
| Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Records by data provider
| Bird life Australia | 15.13M |
| Department of Planning,... | 14.35M |
| Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 8.99M |
| Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.13M |
| OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.56M |
| South Australia, Department for... | 3.78M |
| NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
| Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
| Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
| Questagame | 426,019 |
| Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
| Nature map | 324,652 |
| Nature mapr | 223,084 |
| Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
| Bio collect | 190,649 |
| Fungimap | 180,616 |
| Citizen Science - ALA Website | 128,505 |
| European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
| Feral scan | 109,416 |
| Field data / Biological Data... | 97,702 |
| Climate watch | 93,613 |
| Digi vol | 92,571 |
| Australian Seedbank Partnership | 84,539 |
| 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... | 14,497 |
| Coral Reef Research | 13,867 |
| Not supplied | 66.58M |
Records by institution
| Australian Museum | 1.56M |
| Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | 1.05M |
| Centre for Australian National... | 1.05M |
| Museums Victoria | 1.02M |
| Queensland Museum | 897,555 |
| Western Australia, Department... | 850,471 |
| The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 785,221 |
| Department of Environment,... | 740,393 |
| Queensland Department of... | 730,369 |
| South Australian Museum | 568,962 |
| Western Australian Museum | 555,176 |
| Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | 488,994 |
| Commonwealth Scientific and... | 442,219 |
| Landcare Research NZ Ltd | 409,086 |
| NSW Department of Primary... | 359,337 |
| Auckland War Memorial Museum | 302,044 |
| Department of Environment and... | 287,162 |
| Museum and Art Gallery of the... | 250,375 |
| Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... | 215,572 |
| Australian Tropical Herbarium | 194,849 |
| Field data / Biological Data... | 134,197 |
| Queen Victoria Museum and Art... | 112,885 |
| University of New England | 91,845 |
| Canterbury Museum | 48,992 |
| The University of Melbourne | 29,215 |
| Scion | 28,934 |
| James Cook University | 26,680 |
| WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... | 24,411 |
| University of New South Wales | 24,075 |
| Australian Antarctic Division | 18,473 |
| Not supplied | 116.87M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
| Animals | 100.05M | Monocots | 7.28M |
| Birds | 76.78M | Insects | 5.74M |
| Plants | 25.58M | Fishes | 5.04M |
| Angiosperms | 23.58M | Mammals | 4.30M |
| Dicots | 16.30M | Fungi | 2.27M |
| Arthropods | 8.04M | Reptiles | 1.67M |
| Monocots | 7.28M | Crustaceans | 1.54M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
| Records downloaded | 2.26M events | 96.76B records |
| Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
| Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
| Ecological research | 398,122 events | 6.30B records |
| Scientific research | 348,927 events | 13.28B records |
| Education | 45,283 events | 4.05B records |
| Collection management | 34,637 events | 737.79M records |
| Environmental assessment | 27,937 events | 2.08B records |
| Citizen science | 20,209 events | 1.35B records |
| Biosecurity management/planning | 10,886 events | 775.19M records |
| Conservation management/planning | 9,636 events | 1.01B records |
| Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,027 events | 288.80M records |
| Species modelling | 5,190 events | 971.30M records |
| Restoration/remediation | 1,962 events | 119.05M records |
| Other | 68,347 events | 4.56B records |
| TOTAL | 2.09M events | 38.75B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
| Education | 84,284 events | 6.29B records |
| Government | 15,912 events | 1.49B records |
| Other | 218,399 events | 17.07B records |
| Unspecified | 91,657 events | 888.99M records |
| TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
69,996
| Taxa with images | 91,041 |
| Species with images | 69,996 |
| Subspecies with images | 4,096 |
| Taxa with images from DigiVol | 646 |
| Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,467 |
| Total number of images |