Australian Museum

Australian Museum

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Statistics

Occurrence records	657,489
Species level	482,955
Species	21,210
Taxa	26,312
Datasets	19
Time range	1846 - 2022

Data quality

Dropped records

Not marine	70,270
No WoRMS match	646
No coordinates	34,241
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	5,353
No accepted name available	2,152

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	33,739	0
decimalLatitude	34,238	0
decimalLongitude	34,241	0
eventDate	272,164	0
maximumDepthInMeters	747,386	0
minimumDepthInMeters	747,380	0
scientificName	1	0
scientificNameID	378	413

Spatial issues

Records on land	295,228
More than 20 km from shore	63,631
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	3,344

Top datasets

Dataset	Records
Australian Museum Malacology Collection - Marine records Published 2022-06-08	279,906
Australian Museum Marine Invertebrate Collection Published 2023-06-28	180,455
Australian Museum Ichthyology Collection Published 2022-06-08	155,784
Australian Museum's Lizard Island Research Station, Queensland, Australia (1900 - 2018) Published 2022-06-08	24,118
Australian Museum Ornithology Collection - marine records Published 2022-06-08	9,670
Australian Museum Herpetology Collection - marine records Published 2023-06-28	4,497
Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ‘Investigator’ voyage IN2017_V03, Australia (2017) Published 2023-11-30	1,559
Australian Museum Mel Ward’s Crustaceans - Cabinets 2 to 7, (1896 - 1988) Published 2023-06-28	1,045
Arafura Sea Biological Survey Report on RV Southern Surveyor Expedition 05/2005, 28 April - 28 May 2005 Published 2023-10-27	131
Serpulidae (Annelida) of the Australian Indian Ocean Territories, RV Investigator voyages IN2021_V04 and IN2022_V08 (2021-2022) Published 2025-02-14	52

Distribution

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Top taxa

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Scientific name	Records
Chordata Haeckel, 1874 Phylum Chordata	6,916
Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,649
Rexea solandri (Cuvier, 1832) Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,592
Amphipoda Latreille, 1816 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1,526
Isopoda Latreille, 1816 Phylum Arthropoda > Class Malacostraca	1,292
Polynoidae Kinberg, 1856 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	1,220
Pomacentridae Bonaparte, 1831 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,100
Eatoniella Dall, 1876 Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda	1,090
Apogonidae Günther, 1859 Phylum Chordata > Class Teleostei	1,001
Eunicidae Berthold, 1827 Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta	984