Tenuis consonant, a stop or affricate which is unvoiced, unaspirated and unglottalized
Typhlops tenuis | Tenuis consonant | Tellina tenuis | Lepthyphantes tenuis | Cystopteris tenuis | Cattleya tenuis |
tenuis is introduced to the definitive host (either a raccoon or, as in some rare cases, a human) as a larva when the vector, most commonly an Aedes or Anopheles mosquito, takes a blood meal and the parasite enters the host through the bite wound.
The species name is derived from Latin tenuis (meaning thin) and refers to a thin saccus in the male genitalia, one of the characters separating the new species from closely related Ephysteris deserticolella.
Leuresthes tenuis, the California grunion, is a species of grunion native to the Pacific coast of North America from Monterey Bay in California to Baja California.