Occurrence records

150,055,633

records in total.

10,015 Data sets
• Description only 249

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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
330,595 Type specimens
Holotypes
Lectotypes
Neotypes
Isotypes
Types with images 10,694,790

DNA barcode data
Records606,922
Species37,557
Countries220
Institutions790
Pages 62.61M
Volumes314,292
Titles196,511
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 2,444
Near Threatened 595
Least Concern/Unknown 0
Listed under FFG Act 0
Extinct 170
Parent Species (Unofficial) 0
Records by data provider
Bird life Australia 15.13M
Department of Planning,... 14.79M
Ocean Biodiversity Information... 10.25M
Australia's Virtual Herbarium 6.25M
OZCAM (Online Zoological... 5.70M
South Australia, Department for... 4.00M
NSW Bird Atlasers 3.38M
Global Biodiversity Information... 2.68M
Northern Territory Department... 2.24M
Australian Antarctic Data Centre 1.16M
Questagame 446,036
Nature mapr 367,768
Reef Life Survey 366,171
Nature map 324,652
Bio collect 246,102
Australian National Insect... 218,871
Fungimap 148,560
Feral scan 129,942
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 50,562
Barcode of Life 35,694
Wolli Creek Preservation Society 33,415
Reef watch - Great Victorian... 16,493
Coral Reef Research 13,867
Not supplied 81.40M

Records by institution
Australian Museum 1.56M
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria 1.09M
Centre for Australian National... 1.06M
Museums Victoria 1.03M
Queensland Museum 905,237
Western Australia, Department... 864,153
The Royal Botanic Gardens &... 796,972
Department for Environment and... 758,280
Queensland Department of... 730,562
Western Australian Museum 676,114
South Australian Museum 573,941
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 526,268
Landcare Research NZ Ltd 467,183
Commonwealth Scientific and... 442,219
NSW Department of Primary... 359,335
Auckland War Memorial Museum 312,553
Department of Environment and... 289,493
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa... 253,896
Museum and Art Gallery of the... 250,375
Australian Tropical Herbarium 196,219
Field data / Biological Data... 134,197
Queen Victoria Museum and Art... 124,396
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 29,245
James Cook University 26,710
Queensland Department of... 24,638
Not supplied 136.20M

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Records and species by decade
Usage statistics
Records downloaded 2.55M events 112.22B records
Records viewed 67.12M events 67.12M records
Occurrence downloads by reason
Other scientific research 1.11M events 3.24B records
Scientific research 566,714 events 20.86B records
Ecological research 435,103 events 7.00B records
Education 53,888 events 5.31B records
Collection management 35,161 events 767.99M records
Environmental assessment 33,192 events 3.40B records
Citizen science 21,917 events 1.86B records
Conservation management/planning 13,006 events 2.37B records
Biosecurity management/planning 11,655 events 920.48M records
Systematic research/taxonomy 8,946 events 296.36M records
Species modelling 8,365 events 1.64B records
Restoration/remediation 2,264 events 157.07M records
Other 72,427 events 5.15B records
TOTAL 2.38M events 52.97B records

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Occurrence downloads by user type
Education136,470 events 9.43B records
Government36,876 events 3.62B records
Other435,519 events 26.72B records
Unspecified91,671 events889.69M records
TOTAL events records
Species images   76,871
Taxa with images99,081
Species with images76,871
Subspecies with images4,345
Taxa with images from
DigiVol
616
Taxa with images from
citizen science
35,530
Total number of images21,634,620