Melanella jeffreysii 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 maximum recorded shell length is 5.2 mm.
(Original description) The shell is very slender, thick, transparent, and highly glossy, with a periphery that is more or less distinctly keeled. The apex is obtuse and glassy white. The shell consists of eight whorls, which are compact and flattened; the body whorl accounts for about two-fifths of the total shell length. The aperture is rather small. Tryon, G. W. (1886). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species, ser. 1, vol. 8: Naticidae, Calyptraeidae, Turritellidae, Vermetidae, Caecidae, Eulimidae, Turbonillidae, Pyramidellidae. pp 1-461, pls 1-79. Philadelphia, published by the author.
Distriution This species occurs in the North Sea off Norway and in the Bay of Biscay; in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy; in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde Islands.
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