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5 new species discovered in 2023

2024-01-02 13:30:00, Kuriozitete CNA

Wasp Dalek

2023 has been the year of the wasp, with 619 new species described by the Natural History Museum in Great Britain. Most of them belong to a group known as Encyrtidae. 

Scientists decided to give a genus of wasps - along with the 14 species within it - the name Dalek to recognize the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who.

5 new species discovered in 2023

Although this species has been known by
divers for decades, it was only in 2023 that it was officially described with a Latin name. The "lamp" anemone, as it is informally known, is a translucent sea creature found in the Gulf of Mexico. Now officially called "Bellactic", it shelters in rock crevices in order to bite and capture its prey.

5 new species discovered in 2023

Giant crab spider

Arachnophobics is a large spider, which was discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon this year and is the first of its kind in the South American country.

Pedro Penaherrera-R and Diego Cisneros-Heredia saw a giant crab spider from the genus Sadala while on a night hike near the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Ecuador. 

5 new species discovered in 2023

 

DiCaprio's Snake Eating Snail

A tree-dwelling species has been given the epithet of DiCaprio's snail-eating snake, or in Latin Sibon irmelindicaprioae. The name was chosen by the famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

5 new species discovered in 2023

The giant penguin

Not all of the newly described species are still extant. In fact, some became extinct many millennia ago. Scientists in New Zealand discovered the remains of two species of giant penguins that would have roamed this area about 50 million years ago./ CNA





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