Biological correlates of description date in carnivores and primates

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Global trends and biases in new mammal species discoveries. (2007, background): “Previous research on primates and carnivores indicates that mammal species described in recent years tend to be relatively small-bodied, and have small geographic ranges (Collen et al. 2004).”
Global patterns of freshwater species diversity, threat and endemism (2013, background): “…(e.g. an average of one species of fish per day has been described over the past 20 years; Eschmeyer & Fong, 2012) it would be pertinent to understand where new species might come from and to account for their impact on diversity patterns (Collen et al., 2004; Diniz-Filho et al., 2005).”
The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection (2014, background): “First, unsurprisingly, taxonomists generally describe widespread and locally abundant species before small-ranged and locally scarce ones (46).”
Using taxonomic revision data to estimate the geographic and taxonomic distribution of undescribed species richness in the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) (2009, background): “In addition, andmore statistically troubling, these samples are typically biased taxonomically, geographically, or both (Gaston, 1991; Allsopp, 1997; Cabrero-Sanudo & Lobo, 2003; Collen et al., 2004).”