[Taxacom] Guess numbers of new taxa described per year?

[Luis Ruedas]

A summary of the mammal data was published (open) January 2018:

https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/99/1/1/4834091

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 5:50 AM Charles Morphy <charlesmorphy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Tony and colleagues,
>
> There is this paper discussing the number of new species of Diptera (and
> related issues) described from 2000-2015. The paper is freely available
> here:
>
> http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0031-10492017003300433&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en
>
> Best wishes,
> Charles
>
> Em qua, 3 de abr de 2019 às 07:24, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>
> > Dear Taxacomers,
> >
> > I have been compiling a database of genus names and higher taxa - with
> > authors and publication years for the genera at least - for some time so
> I
> > know some answers to a couple of these questions from my own holdings,
> but
> > I wonder if they would surprise anyone (they surprised me!). So my
> > questions are, taking for example a relatively recent era for which data
> > are available (say 2000-2010), what would anyone imagine to be
> approximate
> > average numbers of new species, genera, and families described per year,
> > across all groups (except viruses, for which authors and years are not
> > generally cited)? Some answers are out there in internet land (for
> species
> > that is all I would have too), others are not...
> >
> > I just thought it might be interesting to hear what numbers taxonomists
> (or
> > other biology persons) might guess. I will relay my answers (on genera
> and
> > families that I have in my database) in a little while.
> >
> > (Then we have to divide the answers by the numbers of working taxonomists
> > to find out how busy they are, and why they get so little home life!)
> >
> > Regards - Tony
> >
> > Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> > https://about.me/TonyRees
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Luis A. Ruedas, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology
Portland State University