Northeast Australian Shelf - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Northeast Australian Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records	2,863,921
Species level	1,519,756
Species	15,970
Taxa	20,681
Datasets	280
Time range	1770 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	4,290
No WoRMS match	245,709
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	30,763
No accepted name available	12,063

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	135,024	74
eventDate	174,908	0
maximumDepthInMeters	674,262	194
minimumDepthInMeters	685,678	109
occurrenceStatus	91,785	0
scientificName	8,053	0
scientificNameID	294,344	1,661

Spatial issues

Records on land	173,305
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	25,335

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	549,497
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 SS2013_T03, Australia (2013) Published 2022-06-25	81,397
eBird Australia - marine records (1901-2019) Published 2022-06-08	74,760
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2012_T07, Australia (2012) Published 2022-06-25	68,019
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	56,889
Vulnerable marine ecosystems in the South Pacific Ocean region Published 2024-05-01	54,158
Queensland WildNet wildlife marine records , Australia (1788-2022) Published 2022-06-08	51,949
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	50,876

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	260,724
Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) VU Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	166,891
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	153,404
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	120,193
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	116,652
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	74,911
Bacteria	51,958
Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepède, 1802) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	44,396
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	44,266
Dinophyceae Fritsch, 1927 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	42,894

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Pseudoceros dimidiatus Graff, 1893 Phylum Platyhelminthes	1	2023
Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	2	2023
Rhincalanus nasutus Giesbrecht, 1888 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Nucia speciosa Dana, 1852 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1	2022
Pterois radiata Cuvier, 1829 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Cirripectes variolosus (Valenciennes, 1836) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Helcogramma chica Rosenblatt, 1960 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Calcinus spicatus Forest, 1951 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	2	2022
Eviota teresae Greenfield & Randall, 2016 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	2	2022
Sistrum lischkei (Hidalgo, 1904) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	6	2022

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	2,425,783
University of Newcastle	1,040,892
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	1,029,862
Integrated Marine Observing System	549,497
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	317,499
University of Technology, Sydney	149,416
Australian Museum	149,297
James Cook University, Townsville	80,165
Cornell University	74,760
CSIRO Oceans and Atmospheric Research, Brisbane	60,613