Dataset

Queensland WildNet wildlife marine records , Australia (1788-2022)

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This is a subset of the marine wildlife records from the Department of Environment and Science's WildNet database. It contains the WildNet wildlife records approved for release (by data providers), that are not classed as erroneous or duplicate, that have a location precision equal to or less than 10000 metres, do not have a count of zero and for taxa not listed as confidential. This dataset is generated weekly.

Citation
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (2026). WildNet wildlife records – published – Queensland. State of Queensland. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Published
July 28, 2026 at 04:07
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=acef_qldwildnet
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=acef_qldwildnet

Contacts

Data Officer
Department of Environment and Science

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

158,028
total submitted occurrences
158,011
accepted occurrences
1,055
taxa
913
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
scientificNameID 17
0.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 98,213
62.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 34,077
21.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 4,875
3.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 131
0.1%
NO_MATCH 17
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data