Balea

Genus of gastropods

Balea
live Balea perversa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Baleinae
Genus: Balea
Gray, 1824[1]

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.[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. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Species in genus Balea" (n=14). AnimalBase, accessed 21 June 2010.
  • 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.
Taxon identifiers
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