Melanella iotoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eulimidae. The species is one of many species known to exist within the genus Melanella.
Description The length of the shell attains 1.5 mm, its diameter 0.5 mm.
(Original description) The shell is exceedingly minute, translucent, and bluish-white, and it is falcate. The whorls are almost flattened and appressed at the summit, separated by a scarcely perceptible suture, and they are of glassy texture and marked by an occasional inconspicuous varix. The periphery of the body whorl is well rounded. The base is somewhat attenuated and well rounded. The aperture is oval; the outer lip is thin and clavate, while the inner lip is short, strongly curved, and appressed. The parietal wall is covered by a thick callus.
Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Ecuador; also off South Africa (Port Alfred)
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