Balea

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Balea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Baleinae
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.

Contents

Balea is the type genus of the subfamily Baleinae. [2]

Species

Species within this genus include:

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References

  1. ↑ Gray J. E. (1824). "On Balea". Zoological Journal 1 ["1825"]: 61-62. London.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 "Species in genus Balea" (n=14). AnimalBase, accessed 21 June 2010.
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