Melanella modesta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae.
This taxon is a junior homonym of Melanella modesta (Thiele, 1925) from South Africa, and will likely be renamed in the future.
Distribution This marine species occurs off Western Australia.
References
Thiele, J. (1930). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. 5 (8). Gastropoda und Bivalvia. Jena: Gustav Fischer. 561-596, pl. 4. Cotton, B.C. 1957. Records of uncommon southern Australian Mollusca. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 13(1): 117-130