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Lobosea: Gymnamoebia: Amoebida: Flabellina: Flabellulidae

 Rosculus sp.
Hawes, 1963

Rosculus 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 sp. or Mayorella ?), cell body 70-100 μm long, 10-17 μm wide, nucleus 5 μm in diam., endosome 3 μm in diam., x 400, x 640, Saitama Pref., Japan, May-June 1999 by Y. Tsukii
scale 50 μm scale 100 μm scale 150 μm; x 400 : scale 31 μm scale 63 μm scale 94 μm; x 640
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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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