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

The imperforate shell is solid, opaque and whitish.

It is cancellated and almost muricated by subequal longitudinal and spiral distant lirae.

The shell contains seven whorls, angularly shouldered above and with a deep suture.

[2] This species occurs in European waters (also off the Cape Verde), the Mediterranean Sea and arctic waters of Canada.