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Census of Marine Life

Graphs Available from the World Register of Marine Species

Caption: Example graph from the World Register of Marine Species, showing the rate at which marine fish have been formally described in scientific literature has held steady for the past 170 years.

Credit: World Register of Marine Species

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Related news release: Census of Marine Life lists 122,500 known species, over halfway to complete inventory by Oct. 2010