Reply to Lukhtanov: Polytypic species: Old wine in a new bottle

Affiliations

• ¹ Laboratory of Amphibian Systematics and Evolutionary Research, College of Biology & Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, 159 Longpan Rd, Nanjing 210037, People's Republic of China.
• ² Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, 45 rue Buffon, CP 50, Paris 75005, France.
• ³ Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center, 64 Nguyen Van Huyen, Cau Giay, Hanoi 122000, Vietnam.
• ⁴ Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1/12 Leninskiye Gory, Moscow 119234, Russia.
• ⁵ Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, Bratislava 842 15, Slovakia.