FIGURE 1 in Towards digital descriptions of all extant reptile species

FIGURE 1 Species descriptions in the Reptile Database over time and ranked by information content. (A) Timeline over which descriptions have been added to the Reptile Database. (B) Descriptions ranked by "size". Each species with a description is shown as a vertical bar, with the hight indicating its size in characters (i.e., "bytes" or letters without spaces, Y axis). The X axis shows the ranked series of species. One example is shown in the insert, namely the description of Lampropeltis alterna. This description has 623 characters and is on the shorter end of the spectrum. The tail end of this graph shows ~700 species in which the description only consists of a reference, e.g., "Description: McDowell 1979: 51" (here: for Candoia aspera Ģnther 1877), hence they are very short.