The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists has just announced the top 10 new species described in 2007.

On the list are an ornate sleeper ray, with a name that sucks: Electrolux; a 75-million-year-old giant duck-billed dinosaur; a shocking pink millipede; a rare, off-the-shelf frog; one of the most venomous snakes in the world; a fruit bat; a mushroom; a jellyfish named after its victim; a life-imitates-art “Dim” rhinoceros beetle; and the “Michelin Man” plant.

The committee also reported in its “SOS” — State of Observed Species — that 16,969 species new to science were discovered and described in 2006.