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Occurrence records
records in total.
3,881
Data sets
Institutions | 901 |
Collections | 204 |
Data Resources | 1,197 |
• Data Available | 1,120 |
• Description only | 77 |
Species List sets | 2,605 |
Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
Human observation | 100.33M |
Preserved specimen | 15.59M |
Observation | 5.34M |
Occurrence | 5.23M |
Machine observation | 3.72M |
147
Collections
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Records by date
Latest record | 5 December 2023 |
Last image added | 2 September 2023 |
1600s | 38 |
1700s | 24,081 |
1800s | 472,027 |
1900s | 31.21M |
2000s | 93.55M |
National Species Lists
Accepted names | 195,424 |
Synonyms | 146,974 |
Species names | 152,080 |
Species with records | 111,566 |
157
Spatial layers
Contextual layers | 92 |
Environmental/grided layers | 65 |
Terrestrial layers | 141 |
Marine layers | 9 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie | 1.93M |
Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.45M |
Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail | 1.24M |
Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena - Welcome Swallow | 1.14M |
Eolophus roseicapilla - Galah | 1.09M |
Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.06M |
12.60M |
251,620
Type specimens
Holotypes | |
Lectotypes | |
Neotypes | |
Isotypes |
Types with images | 7,285,479 |
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 | 2,321 |
Near Threatened | 265 |
Least Concern/Unknown | 0 |
Listed under FFG Act | 0 |
Extinct | 164 |
Parent Species (Unofficial) | 0 |
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia | 15.13M |
Department of Planning,... | 14.41M |
Ocean Biodiversity Information... | 10.14M |
Australia's Virtual Herbarium | 6.20M |
OZCAM (Online Zoological... | 5.57M |
South Australia, Department for... | 3.79M |
NSW Bird Atlasers | 3.38M |
Northern Territory Department... | 2.24M |
Australian Antarctic Data Centre | 1.16M |
Questagame | 434,464 |
Reef Life Survey | 366,171 |
Nature map | 324,652 |
Nature mapr | 222,232 |
Australian National Insect... | 218,871 |
Bio collect | 193,750 |
Fungimap | 180,616 |
Citizen Science - ALA Website | 129,773 |
European Molecular Biology... | 118,898 |
Feral scan | 112,933 |
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... | 14,497 |
Coral Reef Research | 13,867 |
Not supplied | 67.30M |
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 | 900,679 |
Western Australia, Department... | 852,413 |
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... | 785,221 |
Queensland Department of... | 785,155 |
Department of Environment,... | 740,393 |
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... | 116,027 |
University of New England | 91,845 |
Canterbury Museum | 48,992 |
The University of Melbourne | 33,017 |
Scion | 28,934 |
Australian National Botanic Gardens | 28,295 |
James Cook University | 26,699 |
WA Botanic Gardens and Parks... | 24,411 |
University of New South Wales | 24,075 |
Not supplied | 118.84M |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
Animals | 101.44M | Monocots | 7.58M |
Birds | 77.07M | Insects | 5.87M |
Plants | 26.12M | Fishes | 5.78M |
Angiosperms | 24.09M | Mammals | 4.37M |
Dicots | 16.51M | Fungi | 2.29M |
Arthropods | 8.20M | Reptiles | 1.68M |
Monocots | 7.58M | Crustaceans | 1.55M |
Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded | 2.31M events | 99.14B records |
Records viewed | 67.12M events | 67.12M records |
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research | 1.11M events | 3.24B records |
Ecological research | 409,059 events | 6.44B records |
Scientific research | 383,045 events | 14.93B records |
Education | 46,591 events | 4.21B records |
Collection management | 34,721 events | 743.01M records |
Environmental assessment | 28,565 events | 2.13B records |
Citizen science | 20,508 events | 1.39B records |
Biosecurity management/planning | 10,977 events | 777.20M records |
Conservation management/planning | 10,073 events | 1.03B records |
Systematic research/taxonomy | 8,132 events | 289.77M records |
Species modelling | 5,767 events | 1.01B records |
Restoration/remediation | 1,996 events | 119.78M records |
Other | 69,029 events | 4.60B records |
TOTAL | 2.14M events | 40.91B records |
Occurrence downloads by user type
Education | 97,966 events | 7.01B records |
Government | 24,281 events | 1.60B records |
Other | 248,807 events | 18.58B records |
Unspecified | 91,659 events | 889.57M records |
TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
70,975
Taxa with images | 92,295 |
Species with images | 70,975 |
Subspecies with images | 4,124 |
Taxa with images from DigiVol | 646 |
Taxa with images from citizen science | 35,601 |
Total number of images |