Each year the IISE announces a list of the Top 10 New Species for the preceding calendar year. The Top 10 new species described in 2007, announced on May 23, 2008, are listed below with links to additional details about each species.
An international committee of experts, chaired by Dr. Janine Caira of the University of Connecticut selected the Top 10 New Species. These species were selected from the thousands of species described in calendar year 2007. Nominations were invited through the IISE Web site and generated by IISE staff and committee members themselves. The Caira Committee had complete freedom in making its choices and developing its own criteria from unique attributes of or surprising facts about the species to peculiar names. The committee members included Dr. Daphne Fautin (University of Kansas, USA), Dr. Mary Liz Jameson (University of Nebraska, USA), Dr. Niels Kristensen (Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Dr. James Macklin (Harvard University, USA), Dr. John Noyes (Natural History Museum, London, UK), Dr. Alan Paton (International Plant Names Index, Royal Botanical Garden Kew, UK), Dr. Andrew Polaszek (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, London, UK), Dr. Adam Slipinski (CSIRO, Australia), Dr. Gideon Smith (South African National Biodiversity Institute), Dr. Antonio Valdecasas (Museo National Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain), Dr. Zhi-Qiang Zhang (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, New Zealand), and Dr. Janine Caira, chair (University of Connecticut, USA).
