Compsodrillia (Mammillaedrillia) nakamurai Makiyama, 1931 Compsodrillia nakamurai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.
[1] The length of the shell attains 14.7 mm.
[2] This marine species occurs in the East China Sea and off Japan; fossils have been found in Miocene strata of Okinawa and Pliocene strata in Japan.
[citation needed] Compsodrillia was named by Woodring (1928) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi R].
It was assigned to Turrinae by Woodring (1928); to Clavinae by MacNeil (1960); to Drillinae by Olsson (1964); to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002); to Turridae by Gardner (1948), Todd (2001) and Scarponi and Della Bella (2003); and to Pseudomelaniidae by Bouchet et al. (2011).