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.

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

External links

• Gittenberger E., Groenenberg D. S. J., Kokshoorn B. & Preece R. C. (2006). "Molecular trails from hitch-hiking snails". Nature 439: 409. . PDF supplements.