Well..... Allow me to oversimplify things.
We discussed the acceptance of
Hyla orientalis and
molleri in the SEH Taxonomy Commitee (apart from myself consisting of intelligent experts). It was concluded that we feel it is too early to tell. In the mean time, an additional paper has shown that
molleri rather certainly deserves species status. As their mtDNA relatedness seems to cause that you cannot accept one without the other (OR you should treat them together as 1 species!), although they are geographically quite well apart, it seems hard to understand. I have heard about unpublished data suggesting
orientalis and
arborea are conspecific.
Regardless of the fact whether you accept species solely based on mtDNA or not, there is no data to elucidate the reproductive isolation and contact zone of
orientalis and
arborea.
Having said all that, I accept
molleri but not
orientalis at this moment in time. So, I don't think you have a new Romanian species and I'm not sure you ever will (in this case).
Among a list of other people (with some bias towards German-speaking experts), I was consulted (in German, practically ruling out replies from non-German speaking people, like most French, Italian and Spanish experts) by Dieter Glandt in his writing of the list in your link, Vlad. I disagree on quite a few other points with Dieter (
Salamandra longirostris, Hydromantes over
Speleomantes, Bufo spinosus, Bufo variabilis, siculus and
balearicus, Pelophylax bergeri, cerigensis, the way to write the name of the hemiclone frogs,
Emys trinacris, Darevskia pontica). I'd be happy to clarify case-specifically. I guess there's never a single truth
.
Unfortunately, sometimes personal stuff gets in the way of reading the evidence, when e.g. a good scientist still makes a hasty decision and that person happens to be your friend. It may sound like a bad B-movie, but it happens.
On the other hand, it looks like we should (meaning rather: I will) accept the split of
Psammodromus hispanicus into
hispanicus, edwardsianus and
occidentalis, but I (or someone) should still write a proposal for the SEH TC.
The SEH TC uses my 2010 Zootaxa paper as a baseline. I believe that since then we have only accepted 1 change so far - the Sicilian green toad is
Bufo boulengeri siculus (as it is not conspecific with the other Italian green toads, but could be conspecific with those of N Africa).