Balea

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

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:

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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  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.