Dairoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of crabs}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Eocene|Recent}}

| image = Daira perlata - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC06761-001.JPG

| image_caption = Daira perlata

| display_parents = 5

| taxon = Dairoidea

| authority = Serène, 1965 {{cite web |author=Peter Davie |year=2009 |title=Dairoidea |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=439025 |accessdate=January 23, 2010}}

| subdivision_ranks = Families

| subdivision =

• Dacryopilumnidae
• Dairidae

}}

Dairoidea is a superfamily of crabs, comprising two families which each contain a single genus: Dairidae (the living fossil Daira {{cite journal |title=The genus Phlyctenodes Milne Edwards, 1862 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Xanthidae) in the Eocene of Europe |author1=Alessandra Busulini |author2=Giuliano Tessier |author3=Claudio Beschin |name-list-style=amp |journal=Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas |volume=23 |issue=3 |year=2006 |pages=350–360 |url=http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/rmcg/v23n3/v23n3a11.pdf}}) and Dacryopilumnidae (Dacryopilumnus) .{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Peter K. L. |author-link=Peter Kee Lin Ng |last2=Guinot |first2=Danièle |author-link2=Danièle Guinot |last3=Davie |first3=Peter J. F. |date=January 2008 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/s17rbz.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archive-date=6 June 2011 |access-date=8 June 2011 |via=the National University of Singapore}}