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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Subfamily: | Baleinae |
| Genus: | Balea Gray, 1824 |
Balea is a genus of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.
Balea is the type genus of the subfamily Baleinae.
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Balea biplicata (Montague, 1803) – synonym: Alinda biplicata
- Balea fallax (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Balea jugularis (Vest, 1859)
- Balea kaeufeli (Brandt, 1962)
- Balea nitida Mousson, 1858
- Balea nordsiecki Dedov & Neubert, 2002
- Balea pancici Pavlović, 1912
- Balea perversa (Linnaeus, 1758) – the type species of the genus
- Balea sarsii Pfeiffer, 1847 - synonym: Balea heydeni von Maltzan, 1881
- Balea serbica (Möllendorff, 1873)
- Balea stabilis (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- Balea viridana (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Balea vratzatica (Likharev, 1972)
- Balea wagneri (Wagner, 1911)
References
- Gray J. E. (1824). "On Balea". Zoological Journal 1 : 61-62. London.
- Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ "Species in genus Balea" (n=14). AnimalBase, accessed 21 June 2010.
External links
- Gittenberger E., Groenenberg D. S. J., Kokshoorn B. & Preece R. C. (2006). "Molecular trails from hitch-hiking snails". Nature 439: 409. doi:10.1038/439409a. PDF supplements.
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