So species and places currently protected by the law will be remain under these auspices.
In just over 200 years, we have described about a quarter of the estimated half a million or so species.
Features of Archaeopteryx are used to define what a bird is, so species that lived beforehand are in murky territory.
The seven or so species are of the genera Umbra, Novumbra, and Dallia.
Twenty of the habitat's 500 or so species of wildlife are classed as endangered.
Of the 30 or so species of cormorant, only the Galapagos cormorant is flightless.
The dozen or so species of garter snake that populate most of North America may come close in biomass.
Of the 150 or so species of New World figs, most are stranglers, including F. obtusifolia and F. nymphaeifolia.
The classification of this and the other 20 or so species of rafflesias had long baffled scientists.
There are fifty or so species of box jellyfish, which belong to the class Cubozoa, so named for the boxy shape of its translucent bell, or body.
The official start of summer is still two weeks away, and the 40 or so species of mosquitoes in New York have yet to reproduce in large numbers.
