List of New/Closed Species?
5 years ago
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hey nerds

I've come to the point where I've possibly, accidentally, created an individual or creature that could possibly be considered a "new" species. The ony reason I haven't really made it "official" yet, specifically for one species I've accidentally developed and am now in love with that I would wish to make a closed s[ecies, is because I have genuinely no idea if someone has come before me and put together this exact combination of features/species before.
Is there some pre-existing or currently updating list about created or closed species that people can look at to determine if an idea they have has been done before? Or do people usually just go with it? I'm relatively new to all this and the last thing I want is to end up stepping on someone's creative toes completely by accident because I just didn't know any better. I've been trying to look around the internet and what I tend to find is either people's definitions of what an open, semi-open, and closed species are or the argument that closed species should not exist.
I personally wouldn't mind making one of my species open, I guess, as I'm certain other people have done and would love to do something of the kind (if they were so inclined towards beings of the robotic and mechanical pursuasion like myself) but for the other species? As I made them purely while putting together the main character for a new novel I am going to attempt to write, I'm not necessarily sure I truly want to suddenly see crazy amounts of them everywhere. Which I know is kind of odd, but in the canon of what I intend to write the species is incredibly endangered, therefore there should not be an abundance of them that exist. I've also ended up making a set of rules/restrictions for them, mostly for myself as I create them, and realize that if I made them an open or semi-open species others would have to follow them. Have to, but possibly won't (my faith in humanities ability to respect the wishes of a tiny nobody on some random corner of the internet is non-existent at best).
...... I honestly didn't mean to make this this like but uh... yeah. Let a bitch know.