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)

External links

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