Australia - Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Australia

Statistics

Occurrence records	25,135,543
Species level	9,092,179
Species	34,273
Taxa	46,494
Datasets	778
Time range	1698 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	74,192
No WoRMS match	2,846,937
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	304,805
No accepted name available	415,669

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,318,314	6,772
eventDate	704,986	0
maximumDepthInMeters	3,933,149	1,378
minimumDepthInMeters	3,932,076	1,043
occurrenceStatus	357,037	0
scientificName	25,546	0
scientificNameID	3,381,136	19,027

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,716,402
More than 20 km from shore	8,351
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	296,114

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 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	2,180,132
Marine Microbes from the Rottnest Island National Reference Station (NRS), Western Australia, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-08-02	1,501,242
IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Detections (2007 -2021) Published 2022-06-08	1,433,157
eBird Australia - marine records (1901-2019) Published 2022-06-08	1,218,058
Marine Microbes from the Yongala National Reference Station (NRS), Queensland, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-08-02	1,040,892
Foreign vessel commercial trawl records from the North West Shelf, Australia (1979-1985) Published 2023-10-27	821,749
Marine Microbes from the Kangaroo Island National Reference Station (NRS), Queensland, Australia (2015-2020) Published 2022-06-25	526,203

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	3,262,266
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	1,631,719
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	1,086,691
Bacteria	1,039,020
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	782,453
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	630,589
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	573,959
Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	552,127
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	468,196
Flavobacteriales Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	300,026

Newest species

Scientific name	Records	Since
Actinocyclus subtilis (W.Gregory) Ralfs, 1861 Phylum Heterokontophyta > Class Bacillariophyceae	43	2023
Chalinula molitba (de Laubenfels, 1949) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	14	2023
Haliclona pigmentifera (Dendy, 1905) Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae	32	2023
Hypnea nidulans Setchell, 1924 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	25	2023
Lithophyllum okamurae Foslie, 1900 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	12	2023
Kraemeria cunicularia Rofen, 1958 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	115	2023
Stethojulis terina Jordan & Snyder, 1902 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	34	2023
Hypnea stellulifera (J.Agardh) Yamagishi & Masuda, 2003 Phylum Rhodophyta > Class Florideophyceae	14	2023
Phanerophthalmus batangas Austin, Gosliner & Malaquias, 2018 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	20	2023
Adelotremus deloachi Smith-Vaniz, 2017 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	21	2023

Data providers

Name	Records
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	23,567,292
University of Newcastle	10,990,362
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	4,076,883
University of Technology, Sydney	3,110,056
Integrated Marine Observing System	1,433,157
Cornell University	1,218,058
CSIRO Environment	835,637
Australian Museum	506,477
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	448,173
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	446,061