Melanella lactea 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 (Original description in Latin) The shell is subulate, white, opaque, solid, and polished. The spire is straight, and the whorls are flat, furnished with continuous, impressed varices on the right side. The aperture is elliptical and somewhat produced anteriorly. The lip is slightly reflexed anteriorly; the outer lip is thickened.
Distribution This species has a wide distribution in the Indo-West Pacific; also off the Philippines, Indonesia, New Caledonia, Australia (Queensland)
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Sacco F. (1892). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XI. Eulimidae e Pyramidellidae (parte). Torino: Carlo Clausen, 100 pp., 2 pls. Offprint published 30 June 1892, in advance of Memorie della Reale Accademia di Torino, ser. 2, 42: 585-682