134 Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 63(2) June 2006 OPINION 2147 (Case 3263) Octopus hummelincki Adam, 1936 (Mollusca, Cephalopoda): specific name conserved Abstract. The Commission has ruled that the specific name Octopus hummelincki Adam, 1936 is conserved for a common small ocellate octopus from the Caribbean and western Atlantic. The older name O. filosus Howell, 1868 was long regarded as a synonym ofO. vulgaris Cuvier, 1797, but more recentlyhas been synonymized with O. hummelincki(ratherthan O. vulgaris). The name O.filosushas hadverylittleusage and its name has been suppressed. Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Cephalopoda; octopodidae; Octopus hum- melincki; Octopusfilosus. Ruling (1) Under the plenary power it is hereby ruled that the na.mtfilosus Howell, 1868, as published in the binomen Octopusfilosus, is suppressed for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those ofthe Principle of Homonymy. (2) The name hummelincki Adam, 1936, as published in the binomen Octopus hummelincki, is hereby placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology. (3) The wdiVixQfilosus Howell, 1868, as published in the binomen Octopusfilo.nis and suppressed in (1) above, is hereby placed on the Official Index ofRejected and Invahd Specific Names in Zoology. History of Case 3263 An application to conserve the specific name OctopushummelinckiAdam, 1936 for a common small ocellate octopus from the Caribbean and western Atlantic was received from Ian G. Gleadall (Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, Sendai. Japan) on 6 January 2003. After correspondence the case was published in BZN 61: 19-22 (March 2004). The title, abstract and'keywords of the case were published on the Commission's website. No comments on this case were received. Decision ofthe Commission On 1 December 2005 the members ofthe Commission were invited to vote on the proposalspublished in BZN61: 21. At thecloseofthevotingperiodon 1 March 2006 the votes were as follows: Affirmative votes: - 16: Alonso-Zarazaga, Bock, Brothers, Calder, Fortey, Halli- day, Lamas, Macpherson, Mahnert, Mawatari, Minelli, Nielsen, Papp, Rosenberg, Stys and van Tol. Negative vote: - 1: Patterson. No votes were received from Bouchet, Kerzhner, Ng and Song. Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 63(2) June 2006 135 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: filosus, Octopus, Howell, 1868, American JournalofConchology, 3: 240. hummelincki. Octopus, Adam, 1936, Bulletin du Musee Royald'HistoireNaturellede Belgique, 12(40): 2.