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Morphometric and macroanatomic examination of auditory ossicles in male wolves (Canis lupus)
I Gürbüz1, Y Demiraslan2, M O Dayan3
1Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey. iftar@msn.com.
Background:
The aim of the study was to determine morphometric and macroanatomic features of auditory ossicles and the tympanic bulla in wolf.
Materials And Methods:
For this purpose, 7 skulls of adult male wolf were used in the study. Auditory ossicles was photographed on a dissection microscope after it was removed from the skull. A total of 14 morphometric measurements were taken among the different points of malleus, incus and stapes in Image J programme. Mean values of the measurements were obtained and statistically compared in terms of sides (right-left).
Results:
In male wolves, the lengths of the right and left malleus were determined as mean 9.35 ± 0.14 and 9.57 ± 0.25 mm, the lengths of the incus as mean 3.01 ± 0.32 and 2.94 ± 0.16 mm, and the lengths of the stapes as mean 2.57 ± 0.12 and 2.59 ± 0.14 mm, respectively. The differences were not statistically significant when all the morphometric parameters were compared in terms of sides (p > 0.05).
Conclusions:
It is considered that this study will contribute to the anatomical studies to be conducted in the Canidae family regarding auditory ossicles.
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