Daira speciosa

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. http://www.raco.cat/index.php/BolletiSHNBalears/article/viewFile/168311/244937. 
  2. ^ Mcihael 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. http://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/31624/31624.pdf. 

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