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Eira is a neighborhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eira, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2433715	https://www.gbif.org/species/2433715
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	159113	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=159113

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : Eira

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Ferae	Linnaeus 1758
-	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
-	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora	Bowditch 1821
suborder	Caniformia	Kretzoi 1943
family	Mustelidae	Fischer 1817
subfamily	Mustelinae	Fischer 1817
genus	Eira	C.E.H.Smith 1842

Common Name

tayra

Scientific Name

Eira C.E.H.Smith, 1842

Name Published In

Jardine's Natur. Libr. vol.35 p.201

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Eira	genus	belongs to Mustelidae	implied	Palmer, 1904
Eira	genus	belongs to Mustelinae	stated with evidence	Presley, 2000

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

3 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.78 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore, omnivore (based on Mustelidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

T. S. Palmer. 1904. Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals. North American Fauna 23:1-984

Common Name(s)

Tayra

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eira

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Eira barbara species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Tayra	6	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Tayra Palmer, 1904	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Tayra*
Tayra Oken, 1816	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Tayra*
Thayra Kosmos, 1934	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Thayra*
Galera Browne, 1789	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Galera*
Eyrara Lund, 1841	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Eyrara*
Galera Gray, 1842	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Galera*
Eraria Gray, 1843	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Eraria*
Eirara Lund, 1839	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Mustelidae : *Eirara*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1789	Galera Browne
1842	Eira Smith p. 201
1904	Tayra Palmer p. 666
1904	Eira Palmer p. 830
2000	Eira Presley p. 1

References

Palmer T. S. (1904) Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals, North American Fauna 23, 1-984

Presley S. J. (2000) Eira barbara, Mammalian Species 636, 1-6

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Introd. Mamm. (Nat. Libr., 35) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family (except Lontra, Enhydra) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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