Great Barrier Reef - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Great Barrier Reef

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,511,239
Species level	1,209,896
Species	13,997
Taxa	18,401
Datasets	236
Time range	1770 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2,591
No WoRMS match	239,862
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	29,859
No accepted name available	11,251

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	108,784	47
eventDate	129,931	0
maximumDepthInMeters	547,769	65
minimumDepthInMeters	560,285	0
occurrenceStatus	71,685	0
scientificName	6,538	0
scientificNameID	285,607	1,498

Spatial issues

Records on land	26,112
More than 20 km from shore	241
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	12,569

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the Yongala National Reference Station (NRS), Queensland, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-08-02	1,040,892
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) Published 2022-06-08	457,175
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) Long-term Monitoring Program: Visual Census Fish Data (Great Barrier Reef), Australia (1992 to present) Published 2022-06-08	168,620
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2012_T07, Australia (2012) Published 2022-06-25	68,019
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2013_T03, Australia (2013) Published 2022-06-25	61,402
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	51,557
Dredge, trawl and bycatch records from the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (1991-1996) Published 2022-06-09	45,541
Collation of spatial seagrass data (meadow extent polygons, species presence/absence points) from 1984 - 2018 for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA) (NESP TWQ Project 3.2.1 and 5.4, TropWATER, James Cook University) Published 2023-10-19	42,465
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	42,327
QLD DERM Coastal Bird Atlas (Trial) Published 2022-06-08	41,836

Distribution

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Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa Unique species IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	256,190
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	151,592
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	114,473
Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	112,630
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	103,981
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	73,218
Bacteria	51,051
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	43,520
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	42,312
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	40,523

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Pseudoceros dimidiatus Graff, 1893 Phylum Platyhelminthes	1	2023
Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2023
Sistrum lischkei (Hidalgo, 1904) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1	2023
Rhincalanus nasutus Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Siganus guttatus (Bloch, 1787) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2022
Labracinus cyclophthalmus (Müller & Troschel, 1849) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2022
Aioliops novaeguineae Rennis & Hoese, 1987 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	6	2021
Nectamia similis Fraser, 2008 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	8	2021
Pomacentrus magniseptus Allen, Erdmann & Pertiwi, 2017 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	12	2021
Monotaxis heterodon (Bleeker, 1854) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	9	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	2,109,417
University of Newcastle	1,040,892
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	886,949
Integrated Marine Observing System	457,175
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	293,066
University of Technology, Sydney	129,421
Australian Museum	118,415
CSIRO Oceans and Atmospheric Research, Brisbane	56,444
James Cook University, Townsville	54,237
National Institute for Water & Atmospheric Research	52,169