Crassispira maura, common name the dark-coloured pleurotoma, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

[1] Pleurotoma maura Kiener L.C., 1840 is a synonym of Pilsbryspira aterrima (Sowerby, G.B.

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.

[2] This marine species occurs from Mazatlan, Mexico to Ecuador