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How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?
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Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001127

In spite of 250 years of taxonomic classification and over 1.2 million species already catalogued in a central database, our results suggest that some 86% of existing species on Earth and 91% of species in the ocean still await description.

Note: this paper is from 2011, if you know a relevant more recent one, could you please share?
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