Balea
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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.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Family: | Clausiliidae |
Subfamily: | Baleinae |
Genus: | Balea Gray, 1824[1] |
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Balea is the type genus of the subfamily Baleinae.[2]