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Daira

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Dairidae

Taxonomy

Daira was named by De Haan (1833) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-u R]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Dairoidea, Dairidae.

It was assigned to Chlorodinae by Dana (1851); to Xanthidae by Muller and Collins (1991); to Parthenopinae by Karasawa (1993); to Decapoda by Sepkoski (2002); to Eubrachyura by Ahyong et al. (2007); to Dairididae by De Angeli and Beschin (2008); and to Dairidae by Busulini et al. (2006), Schweitzer et al. (2010), De Angeli et al. (2010), Tessier et al. (2011), Beschin et al. (2012), Beschin et al. (2015), Beschin et al. (2016), Luque et al. (2017), Beschin et al. (2018) and Schweitzer and Feldmann (2020).

Species

D. coccoi, D. corallina, D. coronata, D. depressa, D. eocaenica, D. eocaenicus, D. eocenica, D. iugata, D. perlata, D. pseudovulgaris, D. salebrosa, D. sicula, D. speciosa, D. vestenanovensis, D. vulgaris

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1833	Daira De Haan
1851	Daira Dana p. 126
1991	Daira Muller and Collins p. 74
1993	Daira Karasawa p. 75
2002	Daira Sepkoski
2006	Daira Busulini et al. p. 358
2007	Daira Ahyong et al.
2008	Daira De Angeli and Beschin p. 25
2010	Daira De Angeli et al. p. 157
2010	Daira Schweitzer et al. p. 104
2011	Daira Tessier et al. p. 216
2012	Daira Beschin et al. p. 55
2015	Daira Beschin et al. p. 69
2016	Daira Beschin et al. p. 89
2017	Daira Luque et al. p. 66
2018	Daira Beschin et al. p. 178
2020	Daira Schweitzer and Feldmann p. 4

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Multicrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
class	Malacostraca	()

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eumalacostraca	Grobben 1892
—	Caridoida	Hessler 1982
order	Decapoda
suborder	Pleocyemata	Burkenroad 1963
—	Reptantia	(Boas)
—	Meiura	Saint Laurent 1980
infraorder	Brachyura	()
—	Eubrachyura	de Saint Laurent 1980
—	Heterotremata	Guinot 1977
superfamily	Dairoidea	Serene 1965
family	Dairidae	Ng and Rodriguez 1986
genus	Daira	De Haan 1833

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Daira De Haan 1833

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†Daira coccoi Beschin et al. 2012

†Daira corallina Ferratges et al. 2020

†Daira coronata Beschin et al. 2005

†Daira depressa Milne Edwards 1865

†Daira eocaenica Lörenthey 1898

†Daira eocaenicus Lörenthey 1898

†Daira eocenica Di Salvo 1933

†Daira iugata Beschin et al. 2018

Daira perlata Herbst 1790

†Daira pseudovulgaris Beschin et al. 2018

†Daira salebrosa Beschin et al. 2002

†Daira sicula Di Salvo 1933

†Daira speciosa Reuss 1871

†Daira vestenanovensis Beschin et al. 2015

†Daira vulgaris Portell and Collins 2004

†Phymatocarcinus eocaenicus sicula Di Salvo 1933

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

carnivoreo

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2008-01-28 11:51:24

Modified:

2022-05-13 13:34:01

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Holocene or 56.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (43 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Paleogene	66.0 - 23.03	Hungary (Budapest)	D. eocaenica (138811)
Ypresian	56.0 - 47.8	Italy	D. salebrosa (135461) D. sicula (140158 207557) D. sicula, D. vestenanovensis (207470)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Italy	D. coronata, D. salebrosa, D. coccoi (207553) D. sicula, D. vestenanovensis (207556)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	Italy (Vicenza)	D. salebrosa (145128)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Italy	D. eocaenica, D. sicula, D. iugata, D. pseudovulgaris (207550)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Spain	D. corallina (226524 226525 226526)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 28.4	Italy (Vicenza)	D. depressa (69701 147005)
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	Italy	D. depressa (70053)
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	Italy (Veneto)	D. depressa (91651)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Jamaica	D. vulgaris (228737)
Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene	23.03 - 11.608	Japan (Shizuoka)	D. perlata (202476)
Neogene	23.03 - 2.58	Poland	D. speciosa (139754)
Langhian - Serravallian	15.97 - 11.62	Egypt	D. sp. (50923)
Middle Miocene	15.97 - 11.608	Ukraine	D. speciosa (66971)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	Hungary	D. speciosa (34739)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Austria	D. speciosa (141124)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Moldova	D. speciosa (78643 78646 78661 78665)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Hungary	D. speciosa (149366 207751 207754 207755)
Badenian	13.65 - 12.7	Poland	D. speciosa (32515 32516)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Morocco	D. speciosa (34724 70890)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Algeria	D. speciosa (70785 70887)
Messinian	7.246 - 5.333	Malta	D. speciosa (131977)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.588	Fiji	D. perlata (68180 68181 136139 136142)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Mexico	D. americana (147227)