Balea

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 a genus of small, very elongate, left-handed, 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.[2]

Species

Species within this genus include:

References

  1. Gray J. E. (1824). "On Balea". Zoological Journal 1 ["1825"]: 61-62. London.
  2. Bouchet P.; Rocroi J.-P.; Frýda J.; Hausdorf B.; Ponder W.; Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Species in genus Balea" (n=14). AnimalBase, accessed 21 June 2010.

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