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| Definitions of the following characters are given here. | |
| Species: Kassina fusca | |
| Genus: Kassina | |
| Family: Hyperoliidae | |
| Species in Frost database: Kassina fusca | |
| ID information: MK509582.1 / zmbiso001 | |
| NCBI name: Kassina fusca | |
| Ecomorphological guild (s): nektonic | |
| Collector: M.O. Rödel | |
| Country: Ivory Coast | |
| Locality 1: Zanzan | |
| Locality 2: Comoé National Park | |
| Coordinate 1: no data | |
| Coordinate 2: no data | |
| Aquatic habitat: lentic | |
| Gosner stage: 39 | |
| Total length: 49.508 mm | |
| Body length: 13.995 mm | |
| Tail length: 35.513 mm | |
| Maximum body heigth: 13.62 mm | |
| Maximum body width: 9.151 mm | |
| Snout-nostril-distance: 1.336 mm | |
| Snout-spiraculum-distance: 8.427 mm | |
| Eye diameter: 2.266 mm | |
| Internostrial distance: 2.327 mm | |
| Interorbital distance: 8.666 mm | |
| Maximum height of tail: 14.532 mm | |
| Maximum heigth of dorsal fin: 4.956 mm | |
| Maximum heigth of ventral fin: 5.768 mm | |
| Maximum height of tail muscle: 4.407 mm | |
| Maximum width of tail muscle: 3.233 mm | |
| Oral disc width: 2.364 mm | |
| Position of oral disc: anteroventral | |
| Disc emarginated: no | |
| LKRF: 1/2(1) | |
| Anterior keradont rows: 1 | |
| Posterior keradont rows: 2 | |
| Anterior gaps: no | |
| Anterior rows with gaps: 0 | |
| Posterior gaps: yes | |
| Posterior rows with gaps: 1 | |
| Relative length of anterior rows: 1 | |
| Relative length of posterior rows: 1>2 | |
| Anterior papillae: 0 | |
| Posterior papillae: 1 | |
| MPRF: 0/4/1 | |
| Shape of marginal papillae: triangular | |
| Submarginal papillae: yes | |
| Jaw sheaths present: yes | |
| Jaw sheaths serrated: heavily | |
| Upper jaw sheath shape: moderately arched | |
| Lower jaw sheath shape: v | |
| Thickness of jaw sheaths: massive | |
| Nostrils present: yes | |
| Position of nostrils: dorsolaterally | |
| Direction of nostrils: laterally | |
| Shape of nostrils: round | |
| Nostrils with structure: sulcus | |
| Position of eyes: laterally | |
| Direction of eyes: laterally | |
| Position of spiracle: mss | |
| Shape of spiracle: wall absent | |
| Position of vent tube: dextral e | |
| Shape of vent tube: dextral tube | |
| Attachment of vent tube to ventral fin: c | |
| Lateral line system visible: no | |
| Position of lateral line system: absent | |
| Relative heigth of fins: d=v | |
| Dorsal fin reaches onto body: yes | |
| Margin of ventral fin: c | |
| Margin of dorsal fin: c | |
| Tail tip: short flagellum | |
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