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Australia: all

Statistics

Occurrence records	25,615,991
Species level	9,538,889
Species	35,742
Taxa	48,371
Datasets	863
Time range	1698 - 2025

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	0
Not marine	79,404
No WoRMS match	2,851,265
No coordinates	0
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	305,482
No accepted name available	416,709

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,721,424	8,881
eventDate	726,098	0
maximumDepthInMeters	4,286,992	1,586
minimumDepthInMeters	4,282,515	1,241
occurrenceStatus	721,664	0
scientificName	26,117	0
scientificNameID	3,394,319	19,339

Spatial issues

Records on land	2,797,269
More than 20 km from shore	8,351
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	317,615

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	1,433,199
eBird Australia - marine records (1901-2019) Published 2022-06-08	1,222,187
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	3,262,286
Thermoplasmata Phylum Euryarchaeota > Class Thermoplasmata	1,631,723
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002 Phylum Cyanobacteria	1,086,711
Bacteria	1,039,040
Syndiniales Phylum Myzozoa > Class Dinophyceae	782,473
Nitrosopumilaceae Phylum Thaumarchaeota > Class Thaumarchaeota incertae sedis	630,609
Pseudomonadales Phylum Proteobacteria > Class Gammaproteobacteria	573,977
Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	552,127
Flavobacteriaceae (Reichenbach, 1992) emend. Bernardet, Nakagawa & Holmes, 2002 Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	468,216
Flavobacteriales Phylum Bacteroidetes > Class Flavobacteria	300,046

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	23,608,877
University of Newcastle	10,990,362
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	4,099,633
University of Technology, Sydney	3,110,056
Integrated Marine Observing System	1,433,199
Cornell University	1,222,187
CSIRO Environment	836,068
Australian Museum	513,308
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville	448,348
University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies	447,954