Tenuis

Tenuis, weak or slender in Latin, and a species in zoology, may refer to:

• language
  • Tenuis consonant, a stop or affricate which is unvoiced, unaspirated and unglottalized

• Zoology
  • Acropora tenuis is a species of acroporid coral found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden,
  • Anatoma tenuis, a species of minute sea snail
  • Copulabyssia tenuis, a species of sea snail
  • Chromodoris tenuis, a species of colourful sea slug
  • Dirofilaria tenuis, a species of nematode parasitic roundworm
  • Hierodula tenuis, a species of praying mantis in the family Mantidae
  • Maoricicada tenuis, a species of insect that is endemic to New Zealand
  • Montebello tenuis, a monotypic genus of Australian ground spiders
  • Odostomia tenuis, a species of sea snail
  • Tenuiphantes tenuis, a species of spider
  • Tenuis tetra, a fish species
  • Triplophysa tenuis, a species of ray-finned fish