Galeata (from Latin galeāta, "helmeted") is a West Asian genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Clausiliidae, commonly known as door snails. The genus is mainly recorded from Anatolia, including north-western, northern, and southern Turkey.
Like other clausiliids, members of the genus have slender, sinistral (left-coiling) shells and a specialised internal closing apparatus, the clausilium.
Taxonomy Galeata was established by Oskar Boettger in 1877. Its type species, Clausilia galeata Rossmässler, 1839, is currently accepted as Galeata galeata (Rossmässler, 1839).
Several names have been associated with the genus or with taxa now placed in it. Clausilia (Galeata) was originally used as a subgeneric combination. Pleioptychia A. J. Wagner, 1913 was proposed for Clausilia (Euxina) cilicica. Plistoptychia Lindholm, 1924 was afterwards proposed as a replacement name for the preoccupied Pleioptychia. These names are now regarded as synonyms of Galeata.
Galeata antiochica was originally described as Cristataria strangulata antiochica Schütt, 1993, and was later listed under Galeata.
Species The following species are accepted in the genus
Scientific name Distribution Galeata amanica Turkey (Hatay Province, Payas-Hassa area) Galeata antiochica Turkey (Hatay Province, near İskenderun) Galeata cilicica Turkey (southern Anatolia; Kozan area, Adana Province) Galeata galeata Turkey (southern Anatolia; Gülek area); type locality historically cited as "Syria near Baalbek" (modern Lebanon) Galeata schwerzenbachii Turkey (north-western Anatolia and the Black Sea Region, doubtful record from southern Anatolia) Galeata tumluensis Turkey (Adana Province, Tumlu Castle near Sağkaya)
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