Balea

Balea
live Balea perversa
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Clausiliidae
Subfamily: Baleinae
Genus: Balea
Gray, 1824
For the lake in Romania, see Bâlea Lake. For the British tanker intended to be named Balea, see MV Empire Cross.

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.

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