Alvania elegantissima

Alvania elegantissima is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Description
The length of the shell attains 1.6 mm.

(Described as Rissoa abyssicola var. obtusa Jeffreys, 1870 ) Shell regularly oval, with a shorter spire and a less oblique outline, compared to Alvania testae (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844)

The whorls and the protoconch are convex without sculpture.

Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Tyrrhenian Sea at depths between 300 m and 400 m.