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Balea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Clausiliidae

Scientific name
  
Balea

Higher classification
  
Baleinae

Superfamily
  
Clausilioidea

Subfamily
  
Baleinae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Balea perversa, Alinda biplicata, Clausiliidae, Clausilia, Macrogastra

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

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Balea is the type genus of the subfamily Baleinae.

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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

    Balea Wikipedia
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