| Oliva barbadensis | |
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| Shell of Oliva barbadensis (holotype at the Smithsonian Institution) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Olividae |
| Genus: | Oliva |
| Species: | O. barbadensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Oliva barbadensis Petuch & Sargent, 1986 [1] | |
Oliva barbadensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. [2]
Original description: "Shell of medium size for subgenus, heavy, thickened, fusiform in shape, body somewhat inflated, wider at midsection than at shoulder; spire elevated, protracted; color yellow to yellow-tan, overlaid with variable amounts of fine brown triangles in a netted pattern; some specimens with large zig-zag areas of bright yellow; body whorl with two bands of darker brown zig-zags; spire whorls with tan-colored callus; shoulder and edge of suture with pale blue patches, corresponding to sutural scalloping pattern; protoconch large; interior of aperture white; columellar area white with 18 to 25 thin plicae.
Size: approximately 40 to 50 mm. in length.
Holotype: Length 50 mm, width 21 mm, trawled from 200 meters depth
off St. James, Barbados Island, by research vessel. USNM 841427.
Discussion: Oliva barbadensis is closest to Oliva drangai from Tobago, but differs in being a larger, more inflated species, and by having a much darker and more elaborate color pattern." [3]
Locus typicus: off West coast of Barbados, Lesser Antilles: at 500 ft. depths.
"Endemic to Barbados, where it is common at 100 to 160 meters depth, off the west coast of the island." [4]
This marine species occurs off French Guiana.
"Named for Barbados Island, West Indies, the type locality." [5]
"This new species is one of the deepest-dwelling olives in the western Atlantic and is known only from deep water surrounding the Barbados seamount." [6] This carnivorous, scavenging Olive responds readily to baited traps.
