Oenopota impressa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
Pleurotoma impressa Mørch, 1869 is the type species of Nodotoma Bartsch, 1941
The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 14 mm.
The wide shell has a short spire and sloping but rather well-defined shoulder. It is densely costulate longitudinally, crossed by about ten spiral riblets, forming a cancellated surface. Its color is a yellowish ash.
This species occurs in European waters and in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean (Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla); in the Arctic Ocean, near the Seahorse Islands, south to the Aleutians and eastward to St. Paul, Kodiak Island, Alaska.