title: Pleurodiscus balmei
text: # Pleurodiscus balmei
  
  Pleurodiscus balmei is a Mediterranean European species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodiscidae.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species is known to occur in a number of countries and islands including:
  
  * Italy
  * Sicily
  * Malta
  * Turkey
  * Greece
  * Syria
  * Israel
  * Tunisia
  * Algeria
  
  It was introduced to southeastern Australia.
  
  This snail also occurs as a "hothouse alien" in:
  
  * Great Britain
  * and other areas
  