1Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy & Histology, C. V. Sc, Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati, Assam, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy & Histology, C. V. Sc, Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati, Assam, India
3M.V.Sc, Scholar, Department of Veterinary Epidemiology, C. V. Sc, Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati, Assam, India
4Professor & I/c Head, Department of Anatomy & Histology, C. V. Sc, Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati, Assam, India
5M.V. Sc Scholar, Department of Surgery and Radiology, C. V. Sc, Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati, Assam, India
6Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Reproduction Gynaecology and Obstetrics, C. V. Sc, Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati, Assam, India
*Corresponding author: dranilvet01@gmail.com
Online published on 17 December, 2016.
The present study was conducted on the femur of an adult Hoary-Bellied Himalayan Squirrel (Callosciurus pygerythrus) which died due to road accident in the campus of College of veterinary sciences, Khanapara, Guwahati. The animal was collected immediately after death, and processed and then femur was removed, and a gross anatomical study was made on it. It was the longest bone of the skeleton. The head of the femur bent medially of the Hoary-Bellied Himalayan Squirrel (Callosciurus pygerythrus). It was situated in between the greater trochanter and lesser trochanter. The head of the femur was spherical and smooth with a shallow fovea capitis. The greater trochanter, the lesser trochanter and trochanter tertius were prominent. The greater trochanter had a small point on the lateral surface of the cranial part for muscles to originate. The trochanteric fossa was deep. The distal extremity was divided into two portions, namely the medial and lateral condyles through a intercondyloid fossa. The medial and lateral epicondyles had roughened surfaces. The supracondyloid fossa was not evident.
Gross anatomy, femur, Hoary-Bellied Himalayan Squirrel
