Balea
Balea | |
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live Balea perversa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Clausiliidae |
Subfamily: | |
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
- (Rossmässler, 1836)[3]
- (Vest, 1859)[3]
- (Brandt, 1962)[3]
- Mousson, 1858[3]
- Dedov & Neubert, 2002[3]
- 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]
- (Möllendorff, 1873)[3]
- (Pfeiffer, 1847)[3]
- (Rossmässler, 1836)[3]
- (Likharev, 1972)[3]
- (Wagner, 1911)[3]
References[]
- ^ Gray J. E. (1824). "On Balea". Zoological Journal 1 ["1825"]: 61-62. London.
- ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- , 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.
Categories:
- Clausiliidae
- Gastropod genera
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Clausiliidae stubs