Backeljaia

Backeljaia is a genus of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae,^[1] the hairy snails and their allies.

Backeljaia
Shell of Backeljaia gigaxii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Geomitridae
Genus:	Backeljaia Chueca, Gómez-Moliner, Madeira & Pfenninger, 2018
Type species
Helix caperata var. gigaxii L. Pfeiffer, 1847

Species

Species within the genus Backeljaia include:

• Backeljaia camporroblensis (Fez, 1944)
• Backeljaia corbellai (Martínez-Ortí, 2011)
• Backeljaia gigaxii (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
• Backeljaia najerensis (Ortiz de Zárate y López, 1950)