Mogera gluteus subsp. maximus

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 34-35

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scientific name

Mogera gluteus subsp. maximus
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M. gluteus maximus ( fig. 14 View Fig )

ORIGIN: From a fascial sheet that runs between the iliac crest and the sacral neural spines, and from the anterior four or five sacral neural spines.

INSERTION: On the third trochanter of the femur, deep to the insertion of M. tensor fascia femoris.

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in Condylura , Desmana , Galemys ,

Neurotrichus , Parascalops , Scalopus , Scapanus , Talpa , Uropsilus , and Urotrichus . Leche (1883) incorrectly reported that this muscle inserts on the greater trochanter.

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Fig. 14. Lateral view of pelvic limb muscles of Parascalops.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Talpidae

Genus

Mogera