Bullelin ofZoological Nomenclature 53(3) September 1996 203 OPINION 1844 AplysiaJuliana Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): specific name conserved Keywords. Nomenclature: taxonomy; Gastropoda; sea hares; AplysiaJuliana. Ruling (1) Underthe plenary powers the specific name sorex Rang, 1828, as published in the binomen Aplysia sorex. is hereby suppressed for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those ofthe Principle of Homonymy. (2) ThenameJulianaQuoy& Gaimard, 1832, aspublished in the binomen Aplysia Juliana, is hereby placed on the Official List ofSpecific Names in Zoology. (3) ThenamesorexRang, 1828, as published in thebinomen Aplysiasorexand as suppressed in (1) above, is hereby placed on the Official Index ofRejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology. History ofCase 2949 An application fortheconservation ofthespecificname ofAplysiaJulianaQuoy& Gaimard, 1832 was received from Drs E. Martinez and J. Ortea (Departamento de Biologiade OrganismosySistemas. CICatedrdtico Rodrigo Uriasin, Oviedo. Asturias. Spain)on6September 1994. Aftercorrespondencethecasewaspublishedin BZN52: 21-23 (March 1995). Notice ofthe case was sent to appropriatejournals. A comment in support from Dr Alan Bebbington Uley, near Dursley, ( Gloucestershire, U.K.) was published in BZN 52: 260-261 (September 1995). Decision ofthe Commission On 1 March 1996 the members of the Commission were invited to vote on the proposals published in BZN 52: 22-23. At the close ofthe voting period on 1 June 1996 the votes were —as follows: Affirmative votes 22: Bayer, Bock, Bouchet, Cocks, Corliss, Hahn, Heppell, Holthuis, Kabata, Kraus, Lehtinen, Macpherson, Mahnert, Martins de Souza, Minelli, Nielsen, N—ye, Savage, Schuster, Starobogatov, Stys, Trjapitzin Negative votes none. Dupuis abstained. No vote was received from Halvorsen. Cogger and Ride were on leave ofabsence. Original references The following are the original references to the names placed on an Official List and an Official Index by the ruling given in the present Opinion: Juliana, Aplysia, Quoy & Gaimard, 1832, Zoologie. /;;: Voyagededecoiiveriesde L'Astrolabe pendant les annees 1826-1827-1828-1829 sous le commandetnent de M. J. Dmnonl d'Urville, vol. 2 (Mollusques), p. 309. sorex, Aplysia, Rang, 1828, Histoire naturelle des Aplysiens. premierefamiUe de I'ordre des Teclibranches, p. 57.