11 new species discovered in the last year

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Sea anemones, living under the glaciers of Antarctica and translucent snail from Croatia are included in the list of the ten new species of 2014 year, an international team of scientists announced Thursday. The list contains about 18 thousand new species discovered last year.



Top 10 compiled in this, the College of Environment and Forestry (ESF) at the State University of New York (SUNY), produced annually since 2008, the year he was dedicated to the birthday of Swedish botanist XVIII-th century, Carl Linnaeus, who is recognized the father of modern taxonomy.

This list should not be interpreted as rating (there are no "losers" and "winners"), instead, it should draw attention to the "crisis of biodiversity by working to complete the description of all the plants, animals and microbes of the Earth" - said Quentin Wheeler, president of the ESF .

Scientists have calculated that there are 10 million species that have not yet been identified, but the species that have been described, five times more.

Below are pictures from a list of ten new species, as well as some of the other proposed by Wheeler, but not included in the top 10.



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