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This is a response to a preprint version of “A re-analysis of the data in Sharkey et al.’s (2021) minimalist revision reveals that  BINs  do not deserve names, but  BOLD  Systems needs a stronger commitment to open science”,  https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.28.441626v2 . Meier et al. strongly criticized Sharkey et al.’s publication in which 403 new species were deliberately minimally described, based primarily on COI barcode sequence data. Here we respond to these criticisms. The following points are made: 1) Sharkey et al. did not equate  BINs  with species, as demonstrated in several examples in which multiple species were found to be in single  BINs . 2) We reiterate that  BINs  were used as a preliminary sorting tool, just as preliminary morphological identification commonly sorts specimens based on color and size into unit trays; despite  BINs  and species concepts matching well over 90% of species, this matching does not equate to equality. 3) Consensus barcodes were used only to provide a diagnosis to conform to the rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature just as consensus morphological diagnoses are. The barcode of a holotype is definitive and simply part of its cellular morphology. 4) Minimalist revisions will facilitate and accelerate future taxonomic research, not hinder it. 5) We refute the claim that the  BOLD  sequences of    Plesiocoelus   vanachterbergi    are pseudogenes and demonstrate that they simply represent a frameshift mutation. 6) We reassert our observation that morphological evidence alone is insufficient to recognize species within species-rich higher taxa and that its usefulness lies in character states that are congruent with molecular data. 7) We show that in the cases in which COI barcodes code for the same amino acids in different putative species, data from morphology, host specificity, and other ecological traits reaffirm their utility as indicators of genetically distinct lineages.

﻿More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021

More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021