Myogale mylohyoideus

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 9

M. mylohyoideus , pars superficialis ( fig.

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This muscle is a sheet of transverse fibers that runs between the two halves of the mandible, attaching to the ventral surface of each ramus; there is no indication of a median raphe. This muscle lies deep to M. digastricus and superficial to M. geniohyoideus .

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in the 11 study taxa.

Figures

Fig. 6. Ventral view of neck muscles of Parascalops; superficial muscles on bottom, deeper muscles on top.