Balea

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{About||the lake in Romania|Bâlea Lake|the British tanker intended to be named Balea|MV Empire Cross}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| image = Balea perversa 2.jpg

| image_caption = live Balea perversa

| taxon = Balea

| 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:

References

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