Scientists discover wheezing monkey, walking cactus

A walking cactus, a wandering leg sausage, a snub-nosed monkey that sneezes when it rains and a blue tarantula are among a list of the top 10 newly discovered species announced by Arizona State University today.

About 1.8 million species have been described in the last 300 years by taxonomists but this is believed to be just a small percentage of what is actually living on earth.

On this year's top 10 new species list is the sneezing monkey rhinopithecus strykeri, a Bonaire banded box jellyfish, the underwater Devil's worm which resides in South African gold mines, a unique night-blooming orchid, the SpongeBob SquarePants mushroom, the high-altitude Nepalese autumn poppy, a giant millipede called a wandering leg sausage, the extinct walking cactus Diania cactiformis, and the strikingly blue Sazima's tarantula.

See the list here