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[Azebra]

Some of these are so cute. Than there's the others.

 

[Poltergust]

"Fantastically Colored Fish"? That's an odd name.

 

[Liabe Brave]

Not all of these were discovered in 2013, some were several years ago. And the striped bat Niumbaha superba was first collected in 1939; it's just that this year a new specimen allowed them to reclassify it as a new genus.

That's what's most interesting to me: that several of these animals are not just new species, but new genera. That means they're even more surprising, more different from previously attested animals. Besides the bat, there's the two-legged lizard Jarujinia. Also, the two-legged Sirenoscincus is only the second species in a genus first described just 9 years ago.

Looking around, it seems that the most recent higher-level taxon discovered was Concentricycloidea, in 1986--currently listed as an infraclass. So there's still plenty out there to go. Awesome stuff!

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

Updated with Crocidura sapaensis, a shrew.

Not all of these were discovered in 2013, some were several years ago. And the striped bat Niumbaha superba was first collected in 1939; it's just that this year a new specimen allowed them to reclassify it as a new genus.

That's what's most interesting to me: that several of these animals are not just new species, but new genera. That means they're even more surprising, more different from previously attested animals. Besides the bat, there's the two-legged lizard Jarujinia. Also, the two-legged Sirenoscincus is only the second species in a genus first described just 9 years ago.

Looking around, it seems that the most recent higher-level taxon discovered was Concentricycloidea, in 1986--currently listed as an infraclass. So there's still plenty out there to go. Awesome stuff!

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I'm sorry. I guess I don't do good enough research ):

 

[Sir Walter Taffy]

I would like to order 1 Viper, one Newt and one of the Neon Dragons please, thank you.

 

[Glasswork]

That newt looks ridiculous, looks like it was left in the oven a bit too long.

Gaborn...

I didn't really know him but I always enjoyed his animal-discovery threads, he was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the title.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

EDIT: Wrong thread, my bad.

 

[shinobi602]

That's a badass lizard right there.

 

[elwes]

I like it how all these names are literal descriptions of the animal.

"Hey Dave, what should we call this new mouse looking thing?"

"Well...it's face kind of looks like a butt, and it walks sideways."

"Alright, you cool with Crab-walking Buttface Mouse?"