Daira speciosa

Daira speciosa
Temporal range: Miocene
Daira speciosa carapace
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Dairidae
Genus: Daira
Species: D. speciosa
Binomial name
Daira speciosa
(Reuss, 1871)

Daira speciosa is a species of crab that lived in the Paratethys sea during the Miocene period.[1][2] It was up to 4 centimetres (1.6 in) long.

References

  1. L. Garcia Socias (1990). "Daira speciosa Reuss, 1871 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Xanthidae) en el Mioceno de la Isla de Mallorca (Baleares)" (PDF). Bolleti de la Societat d'Historia Natural de les Balears. 33: 81–85.
  2. Michael Gatt & Antonio de Angeli (2010). "A new coral-associated decapod assemblage from the Upper Miocene (Messinian) upper coralline limestone of Malta (central Mediterranean)" (PDF). Palaeontology. 53 (6): 1315–1348. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01008.x.


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