A Snapshot of Online Wildlife Trade: Australian e-commerce trade of native and alien pets

Dataset (titled 'Surface_web_all_abundance_summary_REVISION') summarising the total number of advertisements and animals for each species detected in online trade on Australian surface web e-commerce from 03/12/2019 to 20/03/2020. Additional dataset (titled 'Surface_web_all_location_summary') summarising the total number of advertisements and animals for each region (as designated by e-commerce platforms) from 03/12/2019 to 20/03/2020. Note that not all online listings provided location information. Code sample (titled 'Sample_code_tradeID') for the literal and fuzzy string matching of listings ('online_trade_sample') against a taxonomic reference library ('taxa_name_key_sample').