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Occurrence records
records in total.
10,753
Data sets
| Institutions | 1,001 |
| Collections | 205 |
| Data Resources | 1,559 |
| • Data Available | 1,395 |
| • Description only | 164 |
| Species List sets | 9,101 |
| Document sets | 4 |
Most recently added dataset is:
Basis of records
| Human observation | 121.14M |
| Preserved specimen | 17.05M |
| Machine observation | 3.83M |
| Occurrence | 3.35M |
| Material Sample | 2.72M |
147
Collections
Click on a Collection for details:
Records by date
| Latest record | 22 April 2025 |
| Last image added | 7 April 2025 |
| 1600s | 36 |
| 1700s | 14,107 |
| 1800s | 535,323 |
| 1900s | 31.86M |
| 2000s | 110.73M |
National Species Lists
| Accepted names | 195,424 |
| Synonyms | 146,974 |
| Species names | 152,080 |
| Species with records | 111,566 |
192
Spatial layers
| Contextual layers | 125 |
| Environmental/grided layers | 67 |
| Terrestrial layers | 175 |
| Marine layers | 10 |
Records by state and territory
Most recorded species
| Gymnorhina tibicen - Australian Magpie | 2.22M |
| Grallina cyanoleuca - Magpie-Lark | 1.66M |
| Rhipidura (Sauloprocta) leucophrys - Willie Wagtail | 1.41M |
| Hirundo (Hirundo) neoxena - Welcome Swallow | 1.33M |
| Eolophus roseicapilla - Galah | 1.23M |
| Malurus (Malurus) cyaneus - Superb Fairy-Wren | 1.22M |
| 16.65M |
344,713
Type specimens
| Holotypes | |
| Lectotypes | |
| Neotypes | |
| Isotypes |
| Types with images | 11,193,467 |
DNA barcode data 
| Records | 606,922 |
| Species | 37,557 |
| Countries | 220 |
| Institutions | 790 |
| Pages | 62.97M |
| Volumes | 316,976 |
| Titles | 197,322 |
| 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 |
Occurrence tree
Records by life form
| Animals | 115.32M | Monocots | 8.23M |
| Birds | 87.11M | Insects | 7.67M |
| Plants | 29.06M | Fishes | 5.92M |
| Flowering plants | 26.80M | Mammals | 4.99M |
| Dicots | 18.57M | Fungi | 2.75M |
| Arthropods | 10.22M | Reptiles | 1.95M |
| Monocots | 8.23M | Molluscs | 1.71M |
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 |
Occurrence downloads by user type
| Education | 145,698 events | 10.32B records |
| Government | 37,564 events | 3.83B records |
| Other | 464,508 events | 28.18B records |
| Unspecified | 91,673 events | 889.69M records |
| TOTAL | events | records |
Species images
77,710
| Taxa with images | 100,314 |
| Species with images | 77,710 |
| Subspecies with images | 4,439 |
| Taxa with images from DigiVol | 616 |
| Taxa with images from citizen science | 36,108 |
| Total number of images |