Mandeliidae

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Mandeliidae
A close-up of Mandelia mirocornata, anterior end towards the bottom of the image
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea
clade Doridacea

Superfamily: Phyllidioidea
Family: Mandeliidae
Valdés & Gosliner, 1999[1]

Mandeliidae is a family of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Phyllidioidea. This family is within the clade Euctenidiacea. The family is named for the former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela[2][3]

Genera

References

  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. ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2). 
  3. ↑ http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/mm/molluscs/mandelia_mirocornata.htm

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