Myogale infraspinatus

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 24-25

M. infraspinatus

ORIGIN: From the whole of the channellike infraspinous fossa.

INSERTION: Via a tendon in a small fossa between the greater tuberosity and the humeral head, lateral to the insertion of M. supraspinatus .

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in Condylura , Desmana , Galemys , Neurotrichus , Parascalops , Scalopus , Scapanus , Scaptonyx , Uropsilus , and Urotrichus . It is absent in Talpa .

Triceps Group