Myogale sterno-occipitalis

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 17

M. sterno­occipitalis

ORIGIN: From the anterior surface of the manubrium.

INSERTION: Via an aponeurosis on the lateral wall of the skull just posterior to M. temporalis , together with M. cleido­occipitalis .

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in Desmana , Neurotrichus , Parascalops , Scalopus , Scapanus , Scaptonyx , Talpa , Uropsilus , and Urotrichus . An element in this position is absent in Condylura . This is the M. sternomastoideus pars superficialis of Gaughran (1954).

MYOTOMIC MUSCULATURE

AXIAL MUSCULATURE

Lingual Group