''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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

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. 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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...

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 includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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s in the family

Clausiliidae Clausiliidae, also known by their common name the door snails, are a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBa ...

, 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'',Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on March 2, 2010). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". http://www.ruthenica.com/documents/Continental_Russ ...

'' * '' 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 pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The shell of this species is left-handed in coiling ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – the

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of the genus * ''

Balea sarsii ''Balea sarsii'' is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Clausiliidae. The species has long been overlooked because of confusion with ''Balea perversa''. Taxonomy The specific name ''sa ...

'' 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

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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