Myogale cleido-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. cleido­occipitalis

ORIGIN: From the anteroventral surface of the medial end of the clavicle.

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

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in Condylura , Desmana , Neurotrichus , Parascalops , Scalopus , Scapanus , Scaptonyx , Talpa , and Urotrichus . In Uropsilus , the origin is from the ala of the manubrium.