I want to know the answer to the following question:
Can new methods determine a total number of bacteria species?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Following present classification, there are a little less than 9,300 known species of prokaryotes, which includes bacteria and archaea; but attempts to estimate the true number of bacterial diversity have ranged from 107 to 109 total species – and even these diverse estimates may be off by many orders of magnitude.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no