[Taxacom] see no weevil, hear no weevil, speak no weevil ...

[Stephen Thorpe]

this is surely worth a read:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/5707449/Globes-species-may-number-just-two-million
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throwing numbers around like baked beans in a kindergarten ...
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I very much doubt that 100 years from now, even all the species which live on the Tamaki Campus here will have been described and documented! The rate of description of mites, nematodes, micro-Hymenoptera, micro-fungi, etc. is very low, but the actual diversity is high ...
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In the tropical rainforests, who can even guess how many species are present??
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Stephen