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Left: The number of all of taxonomists involved in species description in a given 5-y interval, the first and last named, and just the first named. Right: The last two measures plotted against the first. The very strong correlations mean that using other counts of taxonomic effort than the one we use (all taxonomists) would not seriously alter our estimates of species numbers.
