Mandelia est genus doridaceorum molluscorum maritimorum sine testa classis Gastropodum et cladi Nudibranchiorum familiae Mandeliidarum. Ambo genus et familia ex Nelson Mandela, praeside Africae Australis, appellantur.[2]

Mandelia mirocornata, pars anterior prope imam imaginem

Classis : Gastropoda 
cladus Heterobranchia
cladus Euthyneura
cladus Nudipleura
cladus Nudibranchia
cladus Euctenidiacea

cladus Doridacea 
Superfamilia : Phyllidioidea 
Familia : Mandeliidae 
Genus : Mandelia 
Valdés & Gosliner, 1999[1]
   

Inter species est:

  1. Valdés À. & Gosliner T. M. (1999). "Phylogeny of the radula-less dorids (Mollusca, Nudibranchia), with the description of a new genus and a new family". Zoologica Scripta 28:315–360. doi:10.1046/j.1463-6409.1999.00014.x.
  2. Anglice: "This South African genus is named Mandelia to honor Nelson Mandela, who led the struggle for a multiracial government in South Africa." [1][nexus deficit] www.biodiversityexporer.org.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20120217204547/http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/mm/molluscs/mandelia_mirocornata.htm
 
Gastropoda

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