title: Mangelia fordii
text: # Mangelia fordii
  
  Mangelia fordii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  The length of the shell attains 4+1⁄3 mm, its diameter 1+1⁄2 mm.
  
  The ovate-fusiform shell is white. The shell contains 6 whorls, of which 2 smooth whorls in the protoconch. The subsequent whorls are slightly convex. This unpretending little shell has for its chief distinctive characters the 8 rounded ribs and fine spiral striation, and the outer lip is thickened within at a little distance from the acute margin. The small aperture is narrow. The columella shows a small callus. The siphonal canal is very short.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  The habitat is unknown.
  
  