We’re sorry, but GBIF doesn’t work properly without JavaScript enabled.
Our website has detected that you are using an outdated insecure browser that will prevent you from using the site. We suggest you upgrade to a modern browser.
{{nav.loginGreeting}}
  • Get data
      • Occurrences
      • Species
      • Datasets
      • Trends
  • How-to
    • Share data

      • Quick-start guide
      • Dataset classes
      • Data hosting
      • Standards
      • Become a publisher
      • Data quality
      • Data papers
    • Use data

      • Featured data use
      • Citation guidelines
      • GBIF citations
      • Citation widget
  • Tools
    • Publishers

      • IPT
      • Data validator
      • Suggest a dataset
      • Scientific Collections
    • Users

      • GBIF API
      • Data processing
      • rgbif
      • MAXENT
      • Tools catalogue
    • GBIF labs

      • Species matching
      • Name parser
      • Sequence ID
      • Relative observation trends
      • GBIF data blog
  • Community
    • Network

      • Participants
      • Nodes
      • Publishers
      • Network contacts
      • Community forum
      • alliance for biodiversity knowledge
    • Volunteers

      • Mentors
      • Ambassadors
      • Translators
      • Citizen scientists
    • Activities

      • Capacity enhancement
      • Training and e-Learning
      • Programmes & projects
      • Living Atlases
  • About
    • Inside GBIF

      • What is GBIF?
      • Become a member
      • Governance
      • Funders
      • Partnerships
      • Implementation plan
      • Contacts
    • News & outreach

      • News
      • Newsletters and lists
      • Events
      • Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
      • Young Researchers Award
      • Science Review
  • User profile
GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources
Search
What is GBIF?
Threadfin cardinalfish (Zoramia leptacantha) observed in Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands by Roger Rittmaster. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Occurrence records

1.000,000,000

Datasets

40,000

Publishing institutions

1,300

Peer-reviewed papers using data

3,450
News

Armenia joins GBIF as an associate participant

News

Ocean Biodiversity Information System and GBIF update and expand cooperation agreement

News

BID call for proposals: Caribbean 2020

News

BID call for proposals: Pacific 2020

News

Guide to publishing sequence-derived data opens for peer-review

Data use

Modelling the global diversity of phytoplankton

News

New data-clustering feature aims to improve data quality and reveal cross-dataset connections

Taxonomy

Newly described species: Biemna aurantiaca

New sponge species from Seno Magdalena, Puyuhuapi Fjord and Jacaf Canal (Chile)

What is GBIF? API FAQ Newsletter Privacy Terms and agreements Citation Code of Conduct Acknowledgements
Contact GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark