Species description - Rates of species description

According to the RetroSOS report,[14] the following numbers of species have been described each year since 2000.

Reference 1: Total number of species descriptions and New insect species described.

Reference 2: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_description