the smallest fish in the world

[Anders Silfvergrip]

Searching http://fishbase.org/SearchNewSpecies.cfm

/225/ *valid species originally described in year* /2004
//230/ *valid species originally described in year* /2003
//275/ *valid species originally described in year* /2002
...
/
So for those three years it was about 20.3 species per month.


Anders Silfvergrip



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Gordon Ramel wrote:
> Very interesting,
>                   Is it true that scientists are averaging about 3 new
> species per month (fish) over the last decade or so.
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>        Gordon Ramel
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>> What an amazing discovery, the habitat, the fish...
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4645708.stm
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>> Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian
>> Institution
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>> Email: agosti at amnh.org
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>> CV: http://antbase.org/agosticv_2003.html
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