Top 10 new species of 2016

Drumroll please.....

Out of roughly 18,000 new species discovered this past year, the International Institute for Species Exploration at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry has narrowed down the top 10 to the following:

I am rather partial to tortoises myself. What were your favorites?

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I liked the Red Sea horse or maybe it's a sea dragon.

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