North Australian Shelf - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

North Australian Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records	1,162,587
Species level	559,509
Species	7,246
Taxa	11,553
Datasets	226
Time range	1840 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	3,172
No WoRMS match	154,426
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	15,726
No accepted name available	7,704

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	160,527	53
eventDate	40,403	0
maximumDepthInMeters	258,379	136
minimumDepthInMeters	259,711	0
occurrenceStatus	21,717	0
scientificName	1,156	0
scientificNameID	174,859	631

Spatial issues

Records on land	50,034
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	10,060

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the Darwin Harbour National Reference Station (NRS), Northern Territory, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-06-22	483,105
CSIRO, Cruises, Vertebrate and Invertebrate Fishery Bycatch, North Australia, 1997 Published 2022-11-11	217,935
North Marine Region demersal fish and invertebrate collection records (DEW collation), Australia (1980 - 1997) Published 2022-06-08	41,048
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2012_T07, Australia (2012) Published 2022-06-25	31,979
Fauna Atlas N.T. - marine records, Northern Territory, Australia Published 2022-06-08	31,108
Four Decades of Seagrass Spatial Data from Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia (1986-2022) Published 2023-06-22	24,101
CSIRO, Soviet Fishery Data, Australia, 1965-1978 Published 2022-09-13	22,357
The Australian Zooplankton Database (1938 onwards) Published 2023-06-28	19,843
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Malacology Collection - marine records Published 2023-06-28	18,540
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	18,207

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	99,283
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	60,737
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	48,856
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	28,062
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	15,484
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	15,473
Amoebophrya Koeppen, 1894 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	15,463
Bacteria	15,327
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	11,891
Gammaproteobacteria Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	11,342

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Centropages bradyi Wheeler, 1900 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Mecynocera clausi Thompson I.C., 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Calocalanus styliremis Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Ornithocercus magnificus Stein, 1883 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2022
Oxytoxum scolopax Stein, 1883 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2022
Thalassionema nitzschioides (Grunow) Mereschkowsky, 1902 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	4	2022
Calanopia minor Scott A., 1902 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3	2022
Oncaea waldemari Bersano & Boxshall, 1996 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	3	2022
Tripos candelabrum (Ehrenberg) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2022
Tripos massiliensis (Gourret) F.Gómez, 2013 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	2	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	1,131,050
University of Newcastle	483,105
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	145,211
CSIRO Oceans and Atmospheric Research, Brisbane	67,584
University of Technology, Sydney	45,011
Museum and Art Gallery, Northern Territory	40,908
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	37,638
Northern Territory Department of Land Resource Management	31,108
James Cook University, Townsville	24,976
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory	20,855