Found this table from the year 1958.
900,000 insects
45,000 chordates
45,000 mollusks
40,000 spiders and allies
35,000 protozoans
25,000 crustaceans
20,000 roundworms
10,000 coelenterates
7,000 flatworms
6,500 segmented worms
5,000 sponges

What’s the situation now, 60 years later?

mollwollfumble said:

Found this table from the year 1958.
900,000 insects
45,000 chordates
45,000 mollusks
40,000 spiders and allies
35,000 protozoans
25,000 crustaceans
20,000 roundworms
10,000 coelenterates
7,000 flatworms
6,500 segmented worms
5,000 sponges

What’s the situation now, 60 years later?

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=stats

Well, sea living species that have been recorded (excluding duplicate names but including species not yet officially accepted).
59,856 chordates (does not include those on land)
117,611 mollusks
2,372 protozoans
87,292 arthropods (including crustaceans and others)
10,793 roundworms
23,504 coelenterates
23,375 flatworms
28,398 segmented worms
18,853 sponges

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Found this table from the year 1958.
900,000 insects
45,000 chordates
45,000 mollusks
40,000 spiders and allies
35,000 protozoans
25,000 crustaceans
20,000 roundworms
10,000 coelenterates
7,000 flatworms
6,500 segmented worms
5,000 sponges

What’s the situation now, 60 years later?

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=stats

Well, sea living species that have been recorded (excluding duplicate names but including species not yet officially accepted).
59,856 chordates (does not include those on land)
117,611 mollusks
2,372 protozoans
87,292 arthropods (including crustaceans and others)
10,793 roundworms
23,504 coelenterates
23,375 flatworms
28,398 segmented worms
18,853 sponges

About 800,000 insects species have been catalogued.

This recent paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28938083

Estimates:
5.5 million insects
1.5 million spiders and allies

But last year, someone in Australia came up with only 1.6 million insect species.

I wonder how many will go extinct due to climate change before they’re even discovered.

Bubblecar said:

I wonder how many will go extinct due to climate change light pollution before they’re even discovered.

Corrected.

At least I found the official register. zoobank.org.

Which connects in to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature iczn and http://globalnames.org/

They lead deeper into the web.

mollwollfumble said:

At least I found the official register. zoobank.org.

Which connects in to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature iczn and http://globalnames.org/

They lead deeper into the web.

all the good taxonomy is on the dark web

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

At least I found the official register. zoobank.org.

Which connects in to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature iczn and http://globalnames.org/

They lead deeper into the web.

all the good taxonomy is on the dark web

I’m beginning to wonder.

Most of the links led nowhere (blank pages, round in circles, or to a useless search engine).

The only link remaining is to http://www.bioone.org/loi/bzno#/doi/full/10.21805/bzn.v75.a001 and this may be another dead end. Nope. It’s only five pages long.

Dark web it is.

mollwollfumble said:

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

At least I found the official register. zoobank.org.

Which connects in to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature iczn and http://globalnames.org/

They lead deeper into the web.

all the good taxonomy is on the dark web

I’m beginning to wonder.

Most of the links led nowhere (blank pages, round in circles, or to a useless search engine).

The only link remaining is to http://www.bioone.org/loi/bzno#/doi/full/10.21805/bzn.v75.a001 and this may be another dead end. Nope. It’s only five pages long.

Dark web it is.

Even the zoobank, if i coul access it which I can’t, only contains 90,000 names. A heck of a long way short of the 800,000 registered species of insects. Zoobank seems to be a wiki that resembles a black hole.

Discovery rate for new marine species. From WoRMS again. Looks like the number of species in the oceans is increasing. ;-)

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Found this table from the year 1958.
900,000 insects
45,000 chordates
45,000 mollusks
40,000 spiders and allies
35,000 protozoans
25,000 crustaceans
20,000 roundworms
10,000 coelenterates
7,000 flatworms
6,500 segmented worms
5,000 sponges

What’s the situation now, 60 years later?

http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=stats

Well, sea living species that have been recorded (excluding duplicate names but including species not yet officially accepted).
59,856 chordates (does not include those on land)
117,611 mollusks
2,372 protozoans
87,292 arthropods (including crustaceans and others)
10,793 roundworms
23,504 coelenterates
23,375 flatworms
28,398 segmented worms
18,853 sponges

A few more that weren’t on the original list.
8,084 bryozoans
2,473 ribbon worms (not strictly roundworms or flatworms)
10,796 + 1,294 roundworms

No more than 1,000 marine species of any other branch of animalia. Eg. 225 tardigrade species.