Nipponaphera cyphoma is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.
The length of the shell attains 12.9 mm.
Its shell is a rounded spiral shape with lengthwise brown barring alternating with white ridges. The lower brown gradients to a black-grey with tones of brown as the shell tapers to a point.
This marine species occurs off New Caledonia. It is a deep-water Cancellariidae from the southwestern Pacific Ocean. [1]