Name: Australian Museum Ornithology Collection - marine records
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Statistics

Occurrence records	9,687
Species level	8,961
Absence records	0
Event records	0
MoF records	0
Sequence records	0
Species	176
Taxa	235
Time range	1861 - 2016

This dataset has appeared in 3,541 downloads in 2024, with a total of 25,433,303 records.

Data quality

Dropped records

Dropped records	1,389
Not marine	734
No WoRMS match	0
No coordinates	700
Zero coordinates	0

Taxonomic issues

Marine unsure	1,620
No accepted name available	22

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	700	0
decimalLatitude	700	0
decimalLongitude	700	0
eventDate	4,385	0

Spatial issues

Records on land	7,025
More than 20 km from shore	2,761
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth	3,318

Top taxa

IUCN Red List All taxa IUCN Red List All taxa IUCN Red List All taxa

Scientific name	Records
Onychoprion fuscatus Linnaeus, 1766 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	663
Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, 1823 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	351
Podargus strigoides (Latham, 1801) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	336
Eudyptula minor (Forster, 1781) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	284
Puffinus pacificus (Gmelin, 1789) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	267
Puffinus tenuirostris (Temminck, 1835) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	214
Larus novaehollandiae Stephens, 1826 Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	196
Tyto alba (Scopoli, 1769) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	195
Anous stolidus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	178
Haliastur sphenurus (Vieillot, 1818) Phylum Chordata > Class Aves	171

Distribution

Records

Composition

detailed (class) simple

Data providers

Name	OceanExpert ID
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre, Hobart	17014
Australian Museum	19275
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure	20942

Australian Museum Ornithology Collection - marine records