The ESF Top 10 New Species for 2015.

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International committee of taxonomists selected the top 10 from among the approximately 18,000 new species named during the previous year and released the list to coincide with the May 23 birthday of Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy.

Alphabetical order by scientific name - species are not ranked

• Feathered Dinosaur (Anzu wyliei)
• Coral Plant (Balanophora coralliformis)
• Cartwheeling Spider (Cebrennus rechenbergi)
• The X-Phyla (Dendrogramma enigmatica)
• Bone-house Wasp (Deuteragenia ossarium)
• Indonesian Frog (Limnonectes larvaepartus)
• Walking Stick (Phryganistria tamdaoensis)
• Sea Slug (Phyllodesmium acanthorhinum)
• Bromeliad (Tillandsia religiosa)
• Pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus)
• http://www.esf.edu/Top10/

Kyonemichthys rumengani

Kyonemichthys rumengani • A New Genus and Miniature New Species of Pipehorse (Syngnathidae) from Lembeh Straits, Sulawesi, Indonesia  [2007]

Abstract: 

A new genus and species of the gasterosteiform family Syngnathidae, Kyonemichthys rumengani, is described from a single 26.8 mm TL adult female collected in Lembeh Straits, Sulawesi, Indonesia. 

It is one of the smallest members of the family relative to body mass, and resembles the pipehorse genera Acentronura, Amphelikturus and Idiotropiscis in having a short head and snout angled slightly to the axis of the body, dermal appendages and flexible tail lacking a caudal fin. 

It differs from the three most notably in having fewer trunk rings (9, versus 11-15), more tail rings (51, versus 37-46), a posteriorly positioned dorsal fin originating on the eighth tail ring (versus usually originating on the trunk, but not posteriorly farther than the second tail ring) and a uniquely swollen trunk with a medial constriction.

(read more: NovaTaxa - Species New to Science)

Source: Martin F. Gomon. 2007. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology. 13; 25-30. (www.wakatobi.com/fishID/articles/Gomon2007AQUA13_Syngnathidae.pdf)

photograph by W. Tan