Vanikoro plicata is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Vanikoridae.

It lives under stones in the lower eulittoral and the sublittoral regions of the ocean.

[1] It has been documented in Okinawa Island and the Mascarene Basin of the Indian Ocean.

[1] It has also been documented in the Northern Red Sea near Egypt.

[2] In addition, it was recorded off the coast of the island nation of Mauritius.