Botanical and zoological nomenclatures provide some of the most stable pillars of modern science. These pillars are now being shaken by the proliferation of ideological concerns against eponymous taxa over ethical grounds. This includes thousands of amphibian species named after a person. We protest against recent initiatives aiming to subjectively replace valid taxonomic names, as it opens a Pandora box that could destabilize species lists and all that relies upon them, including biodiversity conservation policies. Rather than negating former practices to feed contemporary cultural and social norms, we encourage the use of the limited resources available for taxonomic research-an instrumental yet neglected discipline-to describe the millions of species that are left to discover on Earth amid the current biodiversity crisis.