Description: English: Micropleurotoma melvilli (Sykes, 1906), shell and protoconch; family Horaiclavidae. Date: 1906. Source: Ernest Ruthven Sykes (1906). "On the Mollusca procured during the "Porcupine" Expeditions 1869-1870. Supplemental notes, part 3". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 7: 173-190. Author: Ernest Ruthven Sykes.