Balea

Balea is a genus of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails.

For the lake in Romania, see Bâlea Lake. For the British tanker intended to be named Balea, see SS Empire Cross.

Balea
live Balea perversa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Clausilioidea
Family:
Clausiliidae
Subfamily:
Baleinae
Genus:
Balea

Gray, 1824[1]

Balea is the type genus of the subfamily Baleinae.[2]

Species

Species within this genus include:

  • Balea biplicata (Montague, 1803)[3] – synonym: Alinda biplicata
  • Balea fallax (Rossmässler, 1836)[3]
  • Balea jugularis (Vest, 1859)[3]
  • Balea kaeufeli (Brandt, 1962)[3]
  • Balea nitida Mousson, 1858[3]
  • Balea nordsiecki Dedov & Neubert, 2002[3]
  • Balea pancici Pavlović, 1912[3]
  • Balea perversa (Linnaeus, 1758)[3] – the type species of the genus
  • Balea sarsii Pfeiffer, 1847 - synonym: Balea heydeni von Maltzan, 1881[3]
  • Balea serbica (Möllendorff, 1873)[3]
  • Balea stabilis (Pfeiffer, 1847)[3]
  • Balea viridana (Rossmässler, 1836)[3]
  • Balea vratzatica (Likharev, 1972)[3]
  • Balea wagneri (Wagner, 1911)[3]

References
  1. Gray J. E. (1824). "On Balea". Zoological Journal 1 ["1825"]: 61-62. London.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. "Species in genus Balea" (n=14). AnimalBase, accessed 21 June 2010.


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