Tentorium is a genus of sea sponges.
Taxonomy and history Tentorium was described in 1887 by Gualtherus Carel Jacob Vosmaer as a replacement name for Thecophora, a sponge genus described by Eduard Oscar Schmidt in 1870. The name Thecophora was preoccupied by the fly genus Thecophora, described in 1945 by Camillo Rondani.
Species The genus Tentorium includes the following species: Tentorium labium Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2023 Tentorium levantinum Ilan, Gugel, Galil & Janussen, 2003 Tentorium papillatum (Kirkpatrick, 1908) Tentorium semisuberites (Schmidt, 1870)
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