(CNN) -- Consider it the taxonomist's equivalent of a People magazine's Most Beautiful List.
An international committee made up of scientists and related experts has announced its top 10 of nearly 18,000 new species named in the previous year, according to a news release from the International Institute for Species Exploration, part of the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
The alphabetical list was launched in 2008 and is released each May 23, the birthday of 18th-century Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who is considered the father of modern taxonomy. It is "a way to call attention to species that are going extinct faster than they are being identified," the institute said in the release.
Scientists believe 10 million species await discovery, five times the number that are already known to science.read more
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