Myogale serratus subsp. ventralis

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 21-22

M. serratus ventralis cervicis

ORIGIN: As a nearly continuous sheet from the transverse processes of the third through the seventh cervical vertebrae, and from the costovertebral articulation of the first thoracic vertebra.

INSERTION: On the medial surface of the vertebral border of the scapula.

REMARKS: This muscle has the same gen­

eral form in Parascalops and Talpa . Scalopus and Scapanus are similar except the origin includes the costovertebral articulations of both the first and second thoracic vertebrae. Condylura , Galemys , Neurotrichus , Scaptonyx , Uropsilus , and Urotrichus are similar except that there is a separate posterior head that originates from the lateral surface of the first rib, rather than from its costovertebral articulation. Reed (1951) named this muscle M. serratus anterior cervicis, and Gaughran (1954) named it M. levator scapulae et serratus anterior cervicis.