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Tenua hystrix

*Tenua hystrix Eisenack, 1958a, p.410, pl.23, figs.1-4; text-fig.10.

EMENDATION: Sarjeant, 1985a, p.94-95, as Tenua hystrix.

TYPE: Holotype: Eisenack, 1958a, pl.23, fig.1; Sarjeant, 1985a, pl.10, fig.5; Sarjeant, 1992b, fig.1.

HISTORY: Originally (and now) Tenua Eisenack, subsequently Cyclonephelium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonyms: Tenua hystricella, according to Eisenack and Kjellström (1972, p.1039); Cyclonephelium (as Cerbia) tabulatum, according to Sarjeant (1985a, p.95-96) and Sarjeant (1992b, p.681).

COMMENTS: Backhouse (1988, p.83) considered Circulodinium hirtellum to be a possible taxonomic junior synonym of this species.

ETYMOLOGY: N.I.A.

AGE: Aptian.


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