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‘Our classifications will come to be, as far as they can be so made, genealogies... The rules for classifying will no doubt become simpler when we have a definite object in view.’(Darwin [1], p. 486). Our paper about species delimitation in African forest geckos (Hemidactylus fasciatus) used a novel coalescentbased Bayesian method that has generated a new level of scrutiny in species delimitation and taxonomy [2]. One critique was voiced by Bauer et al.[3](hereafter referred to as BEA), who are concerned about species delimitation and the primacy of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN;[4]) for the description of new species. BEA argued that the names we proposed for Hemidactylus geckos are invalid because they did not follow the ICZN. Here, we agree with BEA, and formal morphological species descriptions that are in accordance with the Code are forthcoming for these taxa. However, BEA …