Alinda (gastropod)

Alinda
	shell of Alinda biplicata (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Clausilioidea
Family:	Clausiliidae
Subfamily:	Baleinae
Genus:	Alinda; H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Alinda (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855· accepted, alternate representation; Alinda (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877· accepted, alternate representation; Balea (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855; Balea (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877; Banatica O. Boettger, 1877; Clausilia (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (original rank); Clausilia (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877; Iphigena [sic] (Invalid: junior homonym of Iphigenia Schumacher, 1817; Alinda is a replacement name; incorrect subsequent spelling); Iphigenia Gray, 1840; Kuzmicia Brusina, 1870; Laciniaria (Alinda) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (superseded generic combination); Plicaphora W. Hartmann, 1841; Pseudalinda O. Boettger, 1877; Pseudalinda (Pseudalinda) O. Boettger, 1877; Pseudocerva Schaufuss, 1869; Spoliata Frankenberger, 1912;

Alinda is a subgenus (of Balea) or genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Clausiliidae, the door snails. The name Alinda Adams & Adams, 1855 cannot be used because the older name Plicaphora Hartmann, 1841 has as type * A junior synonym of Alinda's type species Turbo biplicatus Montagu, 1803.

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