Balea
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{About||the lake in Romania|Bâlea Lake|the British tanker intended to be named Balea|MV Empire Cross}}
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| authority = Gray, 1824Gray J. E. (1824). "On Balea". Zoological Journal 1 ["1825"]: [https://archive.org/stream/zoologicaljourna01jour#page/61/mode/1up 61]-62. London.
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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.{{Bouchet 2005}}
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Balea biplicata (Montague, 1803)[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/species?taxongenus=1009 "Species in genus Balea"] (n=14). AnimalBase, accessed 21 June 2010. – synonym: Alinda biplicata
- 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 (Linnaeus, 1758) – the type species of the genus
- Balea sarsii Pfeiffer, 1847 - synonym: Balea heydeni von Maltzan, 1881
- Balea serbica (Möllendorff, 1873)
- Balea stabilis (Pfeiffer, 1847)
- Balea viridana (Rossmässler, 1836)
- Balea vratzatica (Likharev, 1972)
- Balea wagneri (Wagner, 1911)
References
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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}}. [http://www.baskokshoorn.nl/files/pdf/Nature439_409.pdf PDF] [http://www.baskokshoorn.nl/files/pdf/Nature439_409sup.doc supplements].
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Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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