Balea nitida

Balea nitida

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae

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. Species Species within this genus include: Balea biplicata (Montague, 1803) – 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,…

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Balea nitida

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