How Many Species Are There on Earth and in the Ocean?

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Camilo Mora ,

* E-mail: moracamilo@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
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Derek P. Tittensor,

Affiliations Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Sina Adl,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Alastair G. B. Simpson,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Boris Worm

Affiliation Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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