Great Australian Bight - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Great Australian Bight

Statistics

Occurrence records	1,466,897
Species level	747,569
Species	7,035
Taxa	10,609
Datasets	248
Time range	1801 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	2,028
No WoRMS match	130,502
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	10,228
No accepted name available	9,291

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	55,012	3,236
eventDate	34,217	0
maximumDepthInMeters	195,398	2
minimumDepthInMeters	182,833	2
occurrenceStatus	35,518	0
scientificName	903	0
scientificNameID	168,164	3,346

Spatial issues

Records on land	6,281
More than 20 km from shore	318
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	8,178

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the Kangaroo Island National Reference Station (NRS), Queensland, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-06-25	526,203
GPS tracking and dive data from 84 foraging trip tracks of Little Penguins (32 female, 31 male) , Port Campbell, Victoria, Australia (2012-2013) Published 2022-06-06	264,212
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2015_C02, Australia (2015) Published 2022-06-24	150,136
IMOS - AATAMS Facility Satellite Relay Tagging Program - Satellite tracking of pinnipeds - Delayed mode data, 2007-2017 Published 2023-08-11	62,975
CSIRO, Soviet Fishery Data, Australia, 1965-1978 Published 2022-09-13	61,555
OEH Atlas of NSW Wildlife, - marine records Australia (1770 - 2017) Published 2022-06-07	50,903
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) Published 2022-06-08	41,575
eBird Australia - marine records (1901-2019) Published 2022-06-08	23,342
Year-round at-sea movements of fairy prions (Pachyptila turtur) from Kanowna Island, Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia (2017-2020) Published 2022-07-19	23,219
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking (Standardised) Data from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Published 2024-10-23	21,269

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
Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	272,983
Alphaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	145,156
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	90,121
Neophoca cinerea (Péron, 1816) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	63,586
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	57,112
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	53,078
Bacteria	34,483
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	27,572
Pachyptila turtur (Kuhl, 1820) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	24,596
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	23,099

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Pterodroma solandri (Gould, 1844) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	1	2023
Diomedea antipodensis Robertson & Warham, 1992 EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	12	2023
Lubbockia aculeata Giesbrecht, 1891 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Phallusia nigra Savigny, 1816 Phylum Chordata > Class Ascidiacea	1	2021
Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	1	2021
Lichomolgus canui Sars G.O., 1917 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2021
Spongaster tetras Ehrenberg, 1860 Phylum Radiozoa > Class Polycystina	3	2021
Polaribacter dokdonensis Yoon, Kang & Oh, 2006 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	2	2021
Tenacibaculum soleae Pineiro-Vidal, Carballas, Gomez-Barreiro, Riaza & Santos, 2008 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	2	2021
Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus Gauthier, Lafay, Christen, Fernandez, Acquaviva, Bonin & Bertrand, 1992 Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	2	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	1,410,261
University of Newcastle	526,203
Deakin University	295,280
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	256,705
University of Technology, Sydney	150,136
Macquarie University – Department of Biological Sciences	84,244
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH)	50,903
Integrated Marine Observing System	41,575
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	29,255
Cornell University	23,342