Table 1 Biodiversity occurrence data statistics for 24 taxonomic classes.

From: Taxonomic bias in biodiversity data and societal preferences

 

nbocc (millions)

p>1 (thousands)

med/sp (mad)

Taxonomic precision

Aves

345.11

12.82

371 (541)

0.99

Magnoliopsida

118.21

261.01

19 (25)

0.92

Insecta

46.78

352.78

3 (3)

0.77

Liliopsida

36.75

68.99

15 (19)

0.95

Actinopterygii

14.18

30.73

27 (37)

0.92

Mammalia

10.78

11.53

15 (21)

0.88

Bryopsida

6.06

18.85

7 (9)

0.95

Gastropoda

5.85

46.99

7 (9)

0.69

Reptilia

4.98

11.30

24 (34)

0.88

Lecanoromycetes

4.97

17.79

8 (10)

0.93

Polypodiopsida

4.91

12.65

23 (31)

0.95

Amphibia

3.94

5.89

54 (76)

0.91

Agaricomycetes

3.80

23.53

4 (4)

0.93

Malacostraca

2.73

30.16

6 (7)

0.73

Globothalamea

2.68

4.07

10 (13)

0.74

Arachnida

2.17

38.11

3 (3)

0.77

Bivalvia

2.02

14.02

9 (12)

0.70

Bacillariophyceae

1.96

11.19

2 (1)

0.70

Maxillopoda

1.87

9.98

4 (4)

0.58

Pinopsida

1.57

0.91

110 (160)

0.95

Jungermanniopsida

1.41

6.93

7 (9)

0.91

Polychaeta

1.29

8.77

6 (7)

0.73

Florideophyceae

1.07

5.78

17 (24)

0.88

Anthozoa

1.03

8.64

7 (9)

0.59

Total for 24 classes

626.13

1013.39

7 (9)

0.94

Total in the GBIF

649.79

1200.38

6 (7)

0.93

  1. The number of occurrences (nbocc) was obtained before the use of any filter. The number of species (p>1) corresponds to the number of unique scientific names having at least one occurrence. In bold are the eight classes selected to study the taxonomic bias at the ordinal level. med/sp is the median number of occurrences per species and mad is the associated median deviation. Taxonomic precision is the proportion of taxa identified at least at the species level.