@article{article_256229, title={Comparative Macro Anatomical Investigations on the Bones of the Pelvic Limb (Ossa membri pelvini) in the Rock Partridges (Alectoris graeca) and Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus)}, journal={Turkish Journal of Life Sciences}, volume={1}, pages={13–22}, year={2016}, author={Başoğul, Muhammet and Beşoluk, Kamil}, keywords={bacak kemikleri, kaya kekliği, makro anatomik, sülün}, abstract={<p>The purpose of this study is to determine the macroanatomy of femur, patella, tibia, fibula ossa tarsi, tarsometatarsus and ossa digitorum pedis forming leg bones of partridges and pheasant, and to compare the differences between them. In this research, ten rock partridges and pheasants, ten weeks old, were used. Length measurements and definite anatomic formations were determined. Partridge’s measurements of all bone length were always lower than pheasant’s measurements. Some insignificant anatomic differences were found between them. All hindlimb bones weren’t in a pneumatic structure in both species. Femur has exremitas proximalis, distalis and corpus parts. Exremitas proximalis femoris are formed of caput, collum and trochanter femoris. While Corpus femoris shows convexity in cranial part. This part has four faces: facies caudalis, facies cranialis, facies lateralis and facies medialis. Exremitas distalis femoris contains condylus medialis, condylus lateralis, epicondylus medialis, epicondylus lateralis and fossa poplitea formations. Patella looks like triangular in terms of appearance for partridge, but for pheasants it mostly looks like “talus” bone of mammals in terms of its structure. When you look at from the top, exremitas proximalis tibiotarsus has a wide triangular caput tibia. Convexity which locates on articulation facies lateralis on caput tibia and shows convexity features and it is wider. We distinguish three faces as facies caudalis, facies cranialis and facies medialis on corpus tibiotarsi, body part of tibiotarsus. Exremitas distalis tibiotarsi is formed by the combination of tarsal bones, proximal range with tibiotarsus. In this respect, it is located in two big condylus, epicondylus and trochlea. Condylus medialis is more peculiar to cranial than condylus lateralis. Fibula is a thin bone which is located in lateral of tibiotarsus and extends to one third of it getting thinner. Caput is formed of corpus and distal points. There are independent tarsal bones in the body of partridges and pheasants. One of them is (os metatarsale I) rudimenter and the other one is the main tarsometatarsus. Tarsometatarsus, which is the second and main one, is formed by the combination of the second, the third and the fourth metatarsus with the tarsal bones in distal range. Researched animals have four fingers as the first, the second, the third and the fourth fingers from medial to lateral. The first finger has two, the second one has three, the third one has four and the fourth one has five phalanxes. In conclusion, when partridges and pheasants bones of hindlimb are compared whit other bird species, evident differences were determined. It was observed that there were some macroanatomic differences between partridges and pheasants. Besides, some insignificant anatomic differences were observed in the subfamily of these species, too. <br /> </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Ömer Faruk ÇOLAK}