Myogale geniohyoideus

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 17-18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0082(2000)3294<0001:CMOMAT>2.0.CO;2

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF8784-A471-FFC5-78ED-F9B2FE2941FB

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scientific name

Myogale geniohyoideus
status

 

M. geniohyoideus ( figs. 6 View Fig and 7 View Fig )

ORIGIN: As a flat tendon from the ventral and medial surfaces of the anterior mandible.

INSERTION: On the anterior and ventral surfaces of the basihyal cartilage and the ventromedial surface of the thyrohyal cartilage.

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in the 11 study taxa. The antimeres of this muscle are largely fused and tightly attached to the midventral raphe of M. mylohyoideus profundus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Talpidae

Genus

Myogale

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