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Not much known about
the genus and there is only one species so far identified. The
first Rosculus ithacus was isolated from the rectum of a european grass
snake (Natrix natrix), and subsequently it was claimed to have been
discovered in Cambridge, England in a river and a ditch (Page,
1974), and on maize and a human throat in
North America (Page, 1988).
 Rosculus
at the Protist Information Server
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| Rosculus ithacus
(13-19mm
long) eruptive like Vahlkamfida but inclined to adopt flabellate
morphology and locomotory habit. |
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References
Hawes, R.S.J. (1963). "On Rosculus
ithacus gen. n. sp. n. (Protozoa, Amoebida), with special reference
to its mitosis and phylogenetic relations." J.Morph. 113:
139-150.
Page, F.C. (1974). "Rosculus ithacus
Hawes, 1963 (Amoebida, Flabelluidae) and the amphizoic tendency
in amoebae." Acta. Protozool.13: 143-155.
Page, F.C. (1988). "A new guide to
Freshwater and Soil Gymnamoebae". Institute of Terrestrial Ecology.
CCAP.
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