User:BathyMetrix

Barbados resident, 75 years old...that's 3/4 of a century

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Morum dennisoni from deepwater West coast of Barbados.

The Barbenthos project
was a privately run marine deepwater bottom-sampling project
based at Holetown, Barbados, West Indies -primarily seeking rare molluscan seashells
but also assisting researchers from the local Bellairs Research Institute (McGill Univ.)
with various offshore tasks of their own.

The project lasted for four years: 1985-1989
and used a converted 19 foot Aquasport work-boat named Barbenthos
equipped with a winch and davit for getting various gear and equipment on board
after retrieval from depth.

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In 1989, a new species of Olivella was named after the project
published in La Conchiglia Volume 238-241
with type material deposited at the Zoologisch Museum in Amsterdam.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivella_barbenthos#Etymology

https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Olivella_barbenthos

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Among several rare molluscan species that were brought to light were...

Sthenorhytis pernobilis, Lischkeia imperialis,
Perotrochus quoyanus, Entemnotrochus adansonianus,
Oliva barbadensis, Siratus beauii, Siratus motacilla and Siratus consuela,
Eucorys barbouri, Onustus caribaeus and Eudolium crosseanum.