Scientists parade top 10 new species
Story Highlights- Scientists publish the top 10 species discovered and named in 2008
- List includes a tiny seahorse, ghost slug, old fossil, caffeine-free coffee beans
- More than 18,500 new species were discovered worldwide in 2007
- New species found in Indonesia, Borneo, Madagascar, Malaysia and Wales
This tiny seahorse, Hippocampus satomiae, grows no bigger than a pea,
The eerily white ghost slug, Selenochlamys ysbryda, was found in Cardiff
This beautiful species of damselfish, Chromis abyssus, was discovered in a deep-reef habitat off the coast of the Pacific island of Ngemelis in Palau.
Coffee charrieriana is the first recorded caffeine-free coffee plant from Central Afric
Microbacterium hatanonis -- Surprisinigly, this new species of extremophile bacteria was discovered in hairspray Phobaeticus chani -- This is the world's longest insect Tahina spectabilis -- [...] This plant flowers itself to death, producing a huge, spectacular terminal inflorescence with countless flowers |
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