Dairoidea

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Dairoidea
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Section: Eubrachyura
Families
  • Dacryopilumnidae
  • Dairidae

Dairoidea is a superfamily of crabs, comprising two families which each contain a single genus: Dairidae (the living fossil Daira [1]) and Dacryopilumnidae (Dacryopilumnus) .[2]

Species

Dairidae
  • Daira americana Stimpson, 1860
  • Daira coronata Beschin, De Angeli, Checchi & Zarantonello, 2005
  • Daira depressa (A. Milne-Edwards, 1865)
  • Daira perlata (Herbst, 1790)
  • Daira salebrosa Beschin, Busulini, De Angeli & Tessier, 2002
  • Daira sicula (Di Salvo, 1933)
  • Daira speciosa (Reuss, 1871)
  • Daira vulgaris Portell & Collins, 2004
Dacryoplilumnidae
  • Dacryopilumnus eremita Nobili, 1906
  • Dacryopilumnus rathbunae Balss, 1932

References

  1. Alessandra Busulini, Giuliano Tessier & Claudio Beschin (2006). "The genus Phlyctenodes Milne Edwards, 1862 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Xanthidae) in the Eocene of Europe". Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 23 (3): 350–360. 
  2. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. 
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