Oliva barbadensis

Oliva barbadensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]
This carnivorous, scavenging Olive responds readily to baited traps.

Oliva barbadensis
Shell of Oliva barbadensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Olivoidea
Family:
Olividae
Genus:
Oliva
Species:
O. barbadensis
Binomial name
Oliva barbadensis
Petuch & Sargent, 1986[1]

Distribution

Endemic to Barbados, where it is common at 100 to 160 meters depth,
off the west coast of the island. This marine species occurs off French Guiana.

Description

Original description: on page 126, Living Olive Shells of the World
Oliva (Strephona) barbadensis Petuch & Sargent, new species
(Plate 20, Figures 19, 20, 21, 22)
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.
Holotype: Length 50 mm, width 21 mm, trawled from 200 meters depth off St. James, Barbados Island, by research vessel. USNM 841427.
Etymology: Named for Barbados Island, West Indies, the type locality. Discussion: Oliva barbadensis is closest to O. drangai from Tobago, but differs in being a larger, more inflated species, and by having a much darker and more elaborate color pattern. 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.
Size: Approximately 40 to 50 mm in length.

References
  1. Petuch E.J. & Sargent D.M. (1986). Atlas of the living olive shells of the world. xv + 253 pp., 39 pls.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. Oliva barbadensis Petuch & Sargent, 1986. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  • Paulmier G. , 2014. La famille des Olividae Latreille, 1825 (Neogastropoda). Le genre Oliva Bruguière, 1789, aux Antilles et en Guyane françaises. Description de Oliva lilacea nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 41(4) "2013": 437-454, sér. 148, nouvelle série


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