 
 
Lobosea: 
Gymnamoebia: 
Amoebida: Flabellina: Flabellulidae
Rosculus ithacus
Hawes, 1963
|  Genus: Small amoeba with rapidly changing form; sometimes spatulate or flabellate; hyaline zone usually 
with smoothly irregular edge; sometimes deeply divided; 
one known species ? (Page, 1976). Species:
 | 
Rosculus ithacus (large variety ? or similar species), 
cell body 13-19 μm long, 31-44 μm wide, 
x 100, x 400, Japan, 1998 by Y. Tsukii
 50 μm
 50 μm
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 100 μm
 150 μm; x 400
 150 μm; x 400
 
 
 
 
 
R. ithacus: 5-17 μm, 
exceptionally 25 μm (Page, 1976).  
Locomotive 5-15 μm long, rarely to 25 
μm; pseudopods clear, eruptive; uroid none 
(Illustrated Guide, 1985).  
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