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Which roughly equals 50 per day. Now compared to the 1200~ species extinct each day it seems far too few, but keep in mind that the number of species we find might be lower than the number of species created each day.
Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimates that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction. Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history.