Crassispira maura, common name the dark-coloured pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Pleurotoma maura Kiener L.C., 1840 is a synonym of Pilsbryspira aterrima (Sowerby, G.B. I, 1834)
Description The length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 85 mm.
The turreted shell is acuminated and blackish brown. The whorls are tuberculated in the middle, dotted round the lower part, whilst the upper part exhibits a depression from the rilling up of the sinus. The siphonal canal is recurved.Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals; Reeve, Lovell, Brooks, Vincent, Reeve, Frederic, Sowerby, G. B.I (George Brettingham), Taylor, John Edward, Reeve Benham & Reeve, Savill, Edwards and Co., Spottiswoode & Co. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son; vol.1 (1843)
Distribution This marine species occurs from Mazatlan, Mexico to Ecuador
References
G.B. Sowberby I. Proc. Geol. Soc., 1833, p. 137 Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. ii. pi. 133. f. 4.
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