Balea

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
live Balea perversa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Clausiliidae
Subfamily:	Baleinae
Genus:	Balea Gray, 1824[1]

Balea is the type genus of the subfamily Baleinae.^[2]

Species

Species within this genus include:

• Balea biplicata (Montague, 1803)^[3] – synonym: Alinda biplicata
• Balea fallax (Rossmässler, 1836)^[3]
• Balea jugularis (Vest, 1859)^[3]
• Balea kaeufeli (Brandt, 1962)^[3]
• Balea nitida Mousson, 1858^[3]
• Balea nordsiecki Dedov & Neubert, 2002^[3]
• Balea pancici Pavlović, 1912^[3]
• Balea perversa (Linnaeus, 1758)^[3] – the type species of the genus
• Balea sarsii Pfeiffer, 1847 - synonym: Balea heydeni von Maltzan, 1881^[3]
• Balea serbica (Möllendorff, 1873)^[3]
• Balea stabilis (Pfeiffer, 1847)^[3]
• Balea viridana (Rossmässler, 1836)^[3]
• Balea vratzatica (Likharev, 1972)^[3]
• Balea wagneri (Wagner, 1911)^[3]