Morphometrical Analysis of Blood Cells of Yellow-Bellied House Gecko, Hemidactylus flaviviridis Ruppell, 1835 with Sexual Dimorphism

Sarbeswar Nayak, Prafulla Kumar Mohanty

Abstract: The study was held to investigate the size of blood cells of Hemidactylus flaviviridis (Gekkonidae) in Odisha. Blood smears stained with Giemsa were analysed. The measured blood cells were erythrocytes and leucocytes (lymphocytes, heterophils, eosinophils and monocytes). The morphometry regarding the dimension (mean length and breadth) of cell and nucleus show no significance difference (t value) in two different sexes. The cells show a difference in their mean values.

Keywords: blood cell, Gecko, morphometry, sex