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Notes:
the 1.65 x 106 value is that used in World Cons. Monitoring Syst.'s Global Biodiversity book.
ACTUALLY, WE DON'T KNOW…….
inadequacy of search (see next) BUT ALSO
speed of acquisition >>> speed of cataloguing:
"Our museums are glutted with new species. We don’t have time to describe more than a small fraction of those pouring in each year." E. O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life)