Myogale extensor subsp. hallucis

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 37

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Myogale extensor subsp. hallucis
status

 

M. extensor hallucis longus

ORIGIN: From the ventral edge of the falciform process and the adjacent lateral surface of the tibia.

INSERTION: Via a tendon on the dorsal surface of the distal phalanx of digit I.

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in Condylura , Desmana , Galemys , Neurotrichus , Parascalops , Scalopus , Scapanus , Scaptonyx , Talpa , and Urotrichus . Uropsilus is similar, except that the tendon of insertion splits and inserts on digits I and II.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Talpidae

Genus

Myogale

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