Oenopota elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

The axial sculpture consists on the earlier whorls of about 18 protractively oblique rounded ribs, slightly angulate at the shoulder, feeble on the fasciole and crossing the whorls except on the body whorl where they gradually become obsolete.

The whole surface is spirally sculptured with fine close-set threads, here and there one a little more prominent than the rest, others near the siphonal canal coarser.

The siphonal canal is moderately long and slightly recurved.

[2] This marine species is circumarctic and also occurs in European waters, the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Maine.