Occurrence records

150,414,386

records in total.

10,753 Data sets
• Description only 164

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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
192 Spatial layers
Contextual layers 125
Environmental/grided layers 67
Terrestrial layers 175
Marine layers 10

Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
344,713 Type specimens
Holotypes
Lectotypes
Neotypes
Isotypes
Types with images 11,193,467

DNA barcode data
Records606,922
Species37,557
Countries220
Institutions790
Pages 62.97M
Volumes316,976
Titles197,322
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 2,450
Near Threatened 589
Least Concern/Unknown 0
Listed under FFG Act 0
Extinct 167
Parent Species (Unofficial) 0
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia 15.13M
Department of Planning,... 14.20M
Ocean Biodiversity Information... 10.25M
Australia's Virtual Herbarium 6.27M
OZCAM (Online Zoological... 5.72M
South Australia, Department for... 4.12M
NSW Bird Atlasers 3.38M
Global Biodiversity Information... 3.00M
Northern Territory Department... 2.24M
Australian Antarctic Data Centre 1.16M
Questagame 469,038
Reef Life Survey 366,171
Nature map 324,652
Nature mapr 323,387
Bio collect 246,626
Australian National Insect... 218,871
Fungimap 148,560
Feral scan 134,575
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 55,301
Barcode of Life 35,694
Wolli Creek Preservation Society 33,415
Reef watch - Great Victorian... 16,493
Coral Reef Research 13,867
Not supplied 81.87M

Records by institution
Australian Museum 1.56M
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria 1.09M
Centre for Australian National... 1.06M
Museums Victoria 1.04M
Queensland Museum 905,237
Western Australia, Department... 866,635
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... 808,544
Department for Environment and... 759,009
Queensland Department of... 730,562
Western Australian Museum 660,052
South Australian Museum 573,941
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 529,891
Landcare Research NZ Ltd 469,743
Commonwealth Scientific and... 452,153
NSW Department of Primary... 359,335
Auckland War Memorial Museum 318,743
Department of Environment and... 289,493
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... 254,333
Museum and Art Gallery of the... 250,375
Australian Tropical Herbarium 196,219
Field data / Biological Data... 134,197
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... 125,620
University of New England 91,845
Canterbury Museum 48,992
Massey University 41,064
The University of Melbourne 37,043
Scion 34,016
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... 29,740
Australian National Botanic Gardens 29,245
James Cook University 26,710
Not supplied 136.50M

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Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded 2.59M events 114.91B records
Records viewed 67.12M events 67.12M records
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research 1.11M events 3.24B records
Scientific research 590,416 events 22.01B records
Ecological research 444,629 events 7.28B records
Education 55,105 events 5.47B records
Collection management 35,220 events 795.21M records
Environmental assessment 33,765 events 3.57B records
Citizen science 22,153 events 1.98B records
Conservation management/planning 13,377 events 2.53B records
Biosecurity management/planning 11,745 events 921.81M records
Systematic research/taxonomy 9,026 events 297.92M records
Species modelling 8,627 events 1.66B records
Restoration/remediation 2,290 events 157.15M records
Other 72,639 events 5.26B records
TOTAL 2.41M events 55.17B records

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Occurrence downloads by user type
Education145,698 events 10.32B records
Government37,564 events 3.83B records
Other464,508 events 28.18B records
Unspecified91,673 events889.69M records
TOTAL events records
Species images   77,710
Taxa with images100,314
Species with images77,710
Subspecies with images4,439
Taxa with images from
DigiVol
616
Taxa with images from
citizen science
36,108
Total number of images