| Alinda | |
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| shell of Alinda biplicata (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Clausilioidea |
| Family: | Clausiliidae |
| Subfamily: | Baleinae |
| Genus: | Alinda H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 [1] |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms [2] | |
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Alinda is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. [2]
The name Alinda Adams & Adams, 1855 cannot be used because the older name Plicaphora Hartmann, 1841 has as type * A junior synonym of Alinda's type species Turbo biplicatus Montagu, 1803. [3]
Species in this genus include: