Northwest Australian Shelf - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Northwest Australian Shelf

Statistics

Occurrence records	1,785,125
Species level	939,543
Species	10,067
Taxa	15,196
Datasets	275
Time range	1837 - 2024

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	3,535
No WoRMS match	13,513
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	2,194
No accepted name available	92,296

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	117,713	103
eventDate	53,801	0
maximumDepthInMeters	257,174	31
minimumDepthInMeters	248,054	0
occurrenceStatus	28,784	0
scientificName	1,212	0
scientificNameID	191,331	1,652

Spatial issues

Records on land	50,414
More than 20 km from shore	0
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	8,586

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Foreign vessel commercial trawl records from the North West Shelf, Australia (1979-1985) Published 2023-10-27	821,740
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) Published 2022-06-08	210,235
CSIRO, North West Shelf Demersal Marine Resources Study 1980-1997 Published 2022-09-13	185,774
Pilbara Marine Conservation Partnership BRUVS data, Australia (2014 - 2015) Published 2022-06-14	54,258
Ningaloo Outlook turtle tracking of Green turtles (Chelonia mydas), Western Australia (2018-present) Published 2024-06-25	50,047
Catch composition and measurement records from trawling, RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V05, North West Shelf, Australia (2017) Published 2023-11-30	39,915
Tracking of hawksbill and green turtles on the North-west Shelf, Western Australia (2017-2018) Published 2022-06-07	33,997
Marine Microbes from RV Southern Surveyor voyage SS2012_T06, Australia (2012) Published 2022-06-25	31,882
FishNet2 Marine Data Published 2023-12-19	19,128
Western Australian Museum Mollusc Collection, Australia (1905-2016) Published 2023-06-28	18,842

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
Nemipteridae Regan, 1913 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	143,075
Caesionidae Bonaparte, 1831 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	137,336
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) EN Phylum Chordata	103,260
Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) EN Phylum Chordata > Class Elasmobranchii	81,901
Sepiidae Leach, 1817 Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda	75,190
Pisces Phylum Chordata	73,847
Parupeneus Bleeker, 1863 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	72,066
Lethrinidae Bonaparte, 1831 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	69,227
Decapterus russelli (Rüppell, 1830) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	42,862
Saurida undosquamis (Richardson, 1848) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	32,658

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Clytia gracilis (M. Sars, 1851) Phylum Cnidaria > Class Hydrozoa	7	2023
Neoparamoeba aestuarina (Page, 1970) Page, 1987 Phylum Amoebozoa > Class Discosea	18	2023
Micromonas pusilla (Butcher) Manton & Parke, 1960 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	117	2023
Sterna maxima Boddaert, 1783 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	7	2023
Florenciella parvula Eikrem, 2004 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Dictyochophyceae	7	2023
Turbinaria conoides (J.Agardh) Kützing, 1860 Phylum Ochrophyta > Class Phaeophyceae	7	2023
Bellerochea polymorpha Hargraves & Guillard, 1974 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	12	2023
Nitzschia alba J.C.Lewin & R.A.Lewin, 1967 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	8	2023
Nusuttodinium poecilochroum (J.Larsen) Y.Takano & T.Horiguchi, 2014 Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	9	2023
Micromonas commoda Baren, Bachy & Worden, 2016 Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Mamiellophyceae	34	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	1,714,908
CSIRO Environment	821,818
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	606,434
Integrated Marine Observing System	210,235
The University of Western Australia	67,361
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation	50,300
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	47,058
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere	39,916
Western Australian Museum	35,738
Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	19,128