Still being found

The list of animals on earth is not finished, and it is not nearly finished. These reptiles and amphibians were described by science within the last few years. Some of them were named this year.

Most arrive with almost nothing attached: a name, a describer, a type locality, and often no photograph anyone may reuse. They are the newest entries here and among the emptiest, which is the honest shape of a discovery.

Ranked on the year science first described it, which 21,562 species carry. 10 have no figure recorded at all and cannot appear here. This is the best-covered fact in the whole corpus — better covered than size, diet or a photograph.