Daira (crab)

Daira is a genus of crabs and is the only genus in the family Dairidae.^[2]

Daira
Daira perlata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Brachyura
Superfamily:	Dairoidea
Family:	Dairidae P.K.L. Ng & Rodríguez, 1986
Genus:	Daira De Haan, 1833
Synonyms[1]
Cancer De Haan, 1833 Lagostoma H. Milne Edwards, 1834

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.^[2]

Species:^[2]

• Daira americana Stimpson, 1860
• Daira coronata Beschin, 2005
• Daira depressa Milne-Edwards, 1865
• Daira eocaenica Lorenthey, 1898
• Daira eocenica Di Salvo, 1933
• Daira gabertii Milne Edwards, 1830
• Daira perlata (Herbst, 1790)
• Daira salebrosa Beschin et al., 2002
• Daira sicula Di Salvo, 1933
• Daira speciosa Reuss, 1871
• Daira vulgaris Portell & Collins, 2004