Balea Explained

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)^[1] – synonym: Alinda biplicata
• Balea fallax (Rossmässler, 1836)^[1]
• Balea jugularis (Vest, 1859)^[1]
• Balea kaeufeli (Brandt, 1962)^[1]
• Balea nitida Mousson, 1858^[1]
• Balea nordsiecki Dedov & Neubert, 2002^[1]
• Balea pancici Pavlović, 1912^[1]
• Balea perversa (Linnaeus, 1758)^[1] – the type species of the genus
• Balea sarsii Pfeiffer, 1847 - synonym: Balea heydeni von Maltzan, 1881^[1]
• Balea serbica (Möllendorff, 1873)^[1]
• Balea stabilis (Pfeiffer, 1847)^[1]
• Balea viridana (Rossmässler, 1836)^[1]
• Balea vratzatica (Likharev, 1972)^[1]
• Balea wagneri (Wagner, 1911)^[1]

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.

Notes and References

1. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=1009 "Species in genus Balea"