''Balea'' is a

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of small, very elongate, air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

sinistral Sinistral and dextral, in some scientific fields, are the two types of chirality ("handedness") or relative direction. The terms are derived from the Latin words for "left" (''sinister'') and "right" (''dexter''). Other disciplines use different ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the family

Clausiliidae Clausiliidae, also known by the common name door snails, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of small, very elongate, mostly Gastropod shell#Chirality in gastropods, left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terre ...

, the door snails. ''Balea'' is the

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of the subfamily Baleinae.

Species

Species within this genus include: * '' Balea biplicata'' (Montague, 1803)"Species in genus ''Balea''"
(n=14).

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, accessed 21 June 2010. – synonym: ''

Alinda biplicata ''Alinda biplicata'', also known as ''Balea biplicata'', common name the two-lipped door snail or Thames door snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails, ...

'' * '' 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 ''Balea perversa'', also known as the wall snail or tree snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The shell of this species is l ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – the

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of the genus * '' Balea sarsii'' Pfeiffer, 1847 - synonym: ''Balea heydeni'' von Maltzan, 1881 * '' Balea serbica'' (Möllendorff, 1873) * ''

Balea stabilis ''Balea'' is a genus of small, very elongate, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. ''Balea'' is the type genus of the subfamily Baleinae ...

'' (Pfeiffer, 1847) * '' Balea viridana'' (Rossmässler, 1836) * '' Balea vratzatica'' (Likharev, 1972) * '' Balea wagneri'' (Wagner, 1911)

References

External links

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