Tenua Eisenack 1958a

TENUA Eisenack, 1958a, p.410.  Emendations: Sarjeant, 1968, p.230-231; Pocock, 1972, p.94; Sarjeant, 1985a, p.94.  Junior homonym: Tenua Davey, 1978.  Taxonomic senior synonym: Cyclonephelium, according to Sarjeant and Stover (1978, p.49) - however, Sarjeant (1985a, p.93) and Lentin and Williams (1989, p.365) retained Tenua Eisenack.  Taxonomic junior synonym: Cerbia, according to Sarjeant (1985a, p.93-94) and Sarjeant (1992b, p.678) - however, Duxbury (2002, p.76,78) retained Cerbia.  Duxbury (2002, p.78) considered that Tenua Eisenack may be the taxonomic senior synonym of Circulodinium.  Type: Eisenack, 1958a, pl.23, fig.1, as Tenua hystrix.

Parent: Family Gonyaulacaceae Subfamily uncertain

Species List:

Tenua americana
"Tenua anaphrissa"
"Tenua aptiensis"
"Tenua asymmetra"
"Tenua atlantica"
Tenua aucda
"Tenua baculata"
"Tenua bellula"
"Tenua bifidis"
"Tenua biornata"
"Tenua brevispinosa"
"Tenua capillata"
"Tenua capitata"
"Tenua colligata"
"Tenua dubia"
"Tenua echinata"
"Tenua eisenackii"
"Tenua evittii"
Tenua formosa
"Tenua hystricella"
*Tenua hystrix
"Tenua kutharensis"
"Tenua microcysta"
"Tenua microrobusta"
"Tenua neophytensa"
"Tenua pilosa"
Tenua reductum
"Tenua rioultii Sarjeant 1968"
"Tenua simlaensis"
Tenua suturispinosa
"Tenua taugourdeaui"
"Tenua varispinosa"
"Tenua verrucosa"
"Tenua villersensis"
Tenua wenquanensis