Morfologi Kelenjar Anal Musang Luak Betina (Paradoxurus Hermaphroditus)

Abstract

The common palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) is one of the mammalian in Indonesia which have anal gland in female and fefemale that located in the lower tail. This research was aimed to describe the morphology of anal gland of common palm civet female. One female of common palm civet was used in this research which observed macroscopic and microscopic.The result showed that common palm civet have a pair of anal gland which hasshaped like ball and located in the anal sacs wall’s in the ventrolateral of anus.Each anal gland has a ostium of anal canal dorsolaterally in the cutaneous zone of anal canal . Microscopic observation showed a well developed sebaceous gland and apocrine sweat gland in the wall of anal sac. Sebaceous and apocrine glands were excreted their product into main ductus to the anal canal.

Karakteristik Morfometrik Tubuh dan Usus Halus Musang Pandan (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) di Banda Aceh dan Aceh Besar

“…Sebagian besar penelitian terhadap P. hermaphroditus yang telah dilaporkan oleh Maha et al (2018Maha et al ( ) dan (2019 tentang morfologi kelenjar anal dan Prastiya et al (2022) tentang morfologi dan morfometri spermatozoa, serta Winaya et al (2020) tentang morfometrik musang Bali. Penelitian mengenai morfometrik tubuh dan usus halus P. hermaphroditus di Banda Aceh dan Aceh Besar belum pernah dilakukan.…”