01 Melarhaphe neritoides.

01 Melarhaphe neritoides.

Height 5.5 mm. Shallow suture between whorls. Body-whorl retains some uneroded brown-black periostracum; smooth apart from growth lines. Spire heavily eroded, perhaps by acid rain as this marine species, living in the splash zone above the normal high water mark, is exposed to the atmosphere for almost all the time.
April 2012. Portland Bill, Dorset, England.