Mogera sternocuticularis

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 28

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

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scientific name

Mogera sternocuticularis
status

 

M. sternocuticularis

ORIGIN: From the ventral surface of the manubrium, between the two parts of M. pectoralis superficialis .

INSERTION: Into the integument covering the chest and the ventral surface of the forelimb.

REMARKS: This muscle is absent in Uropsilus , but it is present in the other study taxa. It is a narrow, straplike dermal muscle that is innervated by a branch of the pectoral nerve. It is superficial to the other muscles of the pectoral group.

Flexor Group of Arm

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Talpidae

Genus

Mogera

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