Bull. zool. Norn., vol. 41, pt 4, November 1984 233 OPINION 1285 BARBUS ALTIANALIS BOULENGER, 1900 AND B. RUEPPELLI BOULENGER, 1902 (PISCES, CYPRINIDAE): CONSERVED RULING. — (1) Under the plenary powers the specific name ruep-pellii Pfeffer, 1896, as published in the binomen Labeo rueppellii, and all uses of that name prior to the publication of Barbus rueppelli by Boulenger, 1902, are hereby suppressed for the purposes of both the Law of Priority and the Law of Homonymy. (2) The following specific names are hereby placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specified: (a) altianalis Boulenger, 1900, as published in the binomen Barbus altianalis (Name Number 291 1); (b) rueppelli Boulenger, 1902, as published in the binomen Barbus rueppelli (Name Number 2912). (3) The specific name rueppellii Pfeffer, 1896, as published in the binomen Labeo rueppellii, and as suppressed under the plenary powers in ( 1 ) above, is hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology with the Name Number 11 35. HISTORY OF THE CASE Z.N.(S.)2164 An application for the conservation of Barbus altianalis Boulenger, 1900 and B. rueppelli Boulenger, 1902 was first received from Dr Gordon McG. Reid on 2 February 1976. It was sent to the printer on 1 August 1979 and printed on 18 February 1980 in Bull. zool. Norn. vol. 36, pp. 249-251. Public notice of the possible use of the plenary powers in the case was given in the same part of the Bulletin as well as to the statutory serials and to seven general and three ichthyological serials. No comment was received. DECISION OF THE COMMISSION On 12 March 1984 the members of the Commission were invited to vote under the Three-Month Rule in Voting Paper (84)10 for or against the proposals set out in Bull. zool. Norn. vol. 36, p. 250. At the close of the voting period on 12 June 1984 the state of the voting was as follows: Affirmative Votes — twenty-one (21) received in the following order: Melville, Savage, Cocks, Willink, Schuster, Halvorsen, Trjapitzin, Starobogatov, Holthuis, Brinck, Mroczkowski, Binder, Corliss, Alvarado, Bayer, Ueno, Cogger, Kraus, Ride, Heppell, Lehtinen Negative Votes — two (2): Hahn, Dupuis. No voting papers were returned by Bernardi and Sabrosky. The following comments were sent in by members of the
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