Southeast Australian Shelf - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Southeast Australian Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records	4,517,562
Species level	1,685,801
Species	10,073
Taxa	15,454
Datasets	348
Time range	1770 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	8,008
No WoRMS match	575,350
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	49,826
No accepted name available	24,118

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	190,431	584
eventDate	69,079	0
maximumDepthInMeters	615,867	23
minimumDepthInMeters	626,379	23
occurrenceStatus	64,104	0
scientificName	1,629	0
scientificNameID	638,739	7,284

Spatial issues

Records on land	103,836
More than 20 km from shore	263
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	56,788

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Marine Microbes from the Maria Island National Reference Station (NRS), Tasmania, Australia (2012-2021) Published 2022-06-24	2,302,111
Marine Microbes from RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V04, Australia (2016) Published 2022-06-28	354,839
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	265,403
Victorian Biodiversity Atlas, Victoria, Australia (1900-2017) - marine records Published 2022-06-07	138,347
eBird Australia - marine records (1901-2019) Published 2022-06-08	101,460
OEH Atlas of NSW Wildlife, - marine records Australia (1770 - 2017) Published 2022-06-07	89,547
Global Kelp Timeseries from NCEAS/KEEN Working Group Published 2022-06-06	85,378
CSIRO, South East Fishery Habitat Ecosystem Study, Southeast Australia, 1993-1997 Published 2022-11-11	84,229
Museums Victoria Marine Invertebrates Collection Published 2023-06-28	81,504
Year-round at-sea movements of fairy prions (Pachyptila turtur) from Kanowna Island, Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia (2017-2020) Published 2022-07-19	47,251

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	625,205
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	334,006
Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	321,260
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	206,992
Bacteria	205,054
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	139,358
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	119,600
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	97,794
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	95,427
Flavobacteriales Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	69,367

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1878 Phylum Chordata > Class Mammalia	1	2023
Ophiura (Dictenophiura) ctenophora H.L. Clark, 1909 Phylum Echinodermata > Class Ophiuroidea	1	2023
Diomedea antipodensis Robertson & Warham, 1992 EN Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	64	2023
Lubbockia aculeata Giesbrecht, 1891 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Euchaeta marinella Bradford, 1974 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Copepoda	1	2022
Coscinodiscus gigas Ehrenberg, 1841 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	1	2021
Helicostomella subulata (Ehrenberg, 1838) Jörgensen, 1924 Phylum Ciliophora > Class Oligotrichea	1	2021
Hippocampus jugumus Kuiter, 2001 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2021
Eubalichthys cyanoura Hutchins, 1987 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1	2021
Sphingopyxis alaskensis Vancanneyt, Schut, Snauwaert, Goris, Swings & Gottschal, 2001 Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Alphaproteobacteria	1	2021

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	4,340,916
University of Newcastle	2,340,773
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	524,590
University of Technology, Sydney	373,971
Deakin University	328,233
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	255,289
Victoria State Government —Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning	138,347
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	102,078
Cornell University	101,460
Museums Victoria	93,472