Morphological description of the agouti's stomach, spleen and liver (Dasyprocta azarae)

• Grant number: 15/06436-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2015
• End date: July 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Morphology - Anatomy
• Principal Investigator: Fabrício Singaretti de Oliveira
• Grantee: Alisson Diego Senna Fechis
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The agouti, the third biggest wild Brazilian rodent, is an animal who presents a great recent scientific interest, as reported by several papers in the last years. The aim of this research will be to describe this species' stomach, liver and spleen in six fixed corpses, that went from the Catanduva/SP City Zoo, as regarding those anatomical characteristics. (AU)