“…In domestic carnivores, the coeliac artery has a predominant origin at the level of the first lumbar vertebra (Table 3) [1,29,33], although origin points as cranial as the 13 th thoracic vertebra or as caudal as the 2 nd lumbar vertebra are often described [1,25,33]. In the wild canid L. gymnocercus, the predominant skeletopy of the CA was at the level of the 2 nd lumbar vertebra, varying cranially to the 1 st lumbar [22], similar to the results obtained in the sampling of C. thous in this research. In other carnivores, including C. familiaris and Felis catus as well as wild canids Vulpes vulpes and procyonid Nasua nasua, the skeletopy was at the level of the first lumbar [1,5,12,33].…”