Compsodrillia nakamurai

Compsodrillia nakamurai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.

Description

The length of the shell attains 14.7 mm.

Distribution

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.

Compsodrillia was named by Woodring (1928) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi R]. It is extant.

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).

References

• Makiyama, J., 1931: Stratigraphy of the Kakegawa Pliocene in Totomi. Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, vol.7, no.1, pp. 1–53, pls.1–3

External links

• F. Stearns MacNeil, Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa, Geological Survey Professional Paper, United States Government Printing Office, Washington 1960
• Femorale: Compsodrilia nakamurai