Balea
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For the lake in Romania, see Bâlea Lake. For the British tanker intended to be named Balea, see SS Empire Cross.
| Balea | |
|---|---|
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| live Balea perversa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Clausilioidea |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Subfamily: | Baleinae |
| Genus: | Balea Gray, 1824[1] |
Balea is a genus of small, very elongate, left-handed, 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 heydeni Von Maltzan, 1881[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 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
- ↑ Gray J. E. (1824). "On Balea". Zoological Journal 1 ["1825"]: 61-62. London.
- ↑ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 "Species in genus Balea" (n=14). AnimalBase, accessed 21 June 2010.
External links
- 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.
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