East Central Australian Shelf - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

East Central Australian Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records	8,724,520
Species level	1,141,731
Species	14,678
Taxa	20,259
Datasets	311
Time range	1770 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	1,754
No WoRMS match	1,412,705
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	149,784
No accepted name available	36,653

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	100,478	793
eventDate	88,770	0
maximumDepthInMeters	441,360	647
minimumDepthInMeters	442,333	646
occurrenceStatus	47,132	0
scientificName	6,033	0
scientificNameID	1,558,888	4,323

Spatial issues

Records on land	202,753
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	14,932

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the North Stradbroke Island National Reference Station (NRS), Queensland, Australia (2012-2020) Published 2023-07-18	2,550,420
Marine Microbes from the Port Hacking National Reference Station (NRS), New South Wales, Australia (2012-2020) Published 2022-08-03	2,547,727
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V04, Australia (2016) Published 2022-06-28	1,825,293
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2015_V03, Australia (2015) Published 2022-06-24	300,515
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2010_V09, Australia (2010) Published 2022-06-25	261,641
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) Published 2022-06-08	151,257
Tracking of Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) from Montague and Bowen Islands, New South Wales coast, Australia (2012 - 2014) Published 2022-06-07	147,741
eBird Australia - marine records (1901-2019) Published 2022-06-08	102,479
OEH Atlas of NSW Wildlife, - marine records Australia (1770 - 2017) Published 2022-06-07	101,368
Marine Commercial Fish Survey (FV Kapala, FV Trader Horn, FV Shelley, FV Kirrawa, FV May Bell) in the East and South East Australian Region from 1975 to 2008 Published 2023-06-28	83,342

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	1,772,026
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	784,576
Bacteria	650,679
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	502,726
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	487,149
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	400,890
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	301,885
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	236,829
Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	191,253
Rhodospirillales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	173,272

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Ophiobyrsa rudis Lyman, 1878 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2023
Scolecithricella minor (Brady, 1883) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Eubalaena glacialis (Müller, 1776) CR Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2022
Scolecitrichopsis ctenopus (Giesbrecht, 1888) Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Massinium magnum (Ludwig, 1882) Phylum Echinodermata > Class Holothuroidea	2	2022
Episcomitra cornicula (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	3	2022
Clytia noliformis (McCrady, 1859) sensu Calder, 1991 Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	1	2021
Cyclosalpa pinnata (Forskål, 1775) Phylum Chordata > Class Thaliacea	1	2021
Bysmatrum subsalsum (Ostenfeld) M.A.Faust & K.A.Steidinger, 1998 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	1	2021
Thalia rhomboides (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Phylum Chordata > Class Thaliacea	57	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	8,494,355
University of Newcastle	5,098,147
University of Technology, Sydney	2,410,654
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	452,873
Macquarie University	183,397
Integrated Marine Observing System	151,257
Australian Museum	116,803
Cornell University	102,479
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH)	101,368
University of Hull, Oceans Past Initiative	87,391