Myogale sternomastoideus

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. sternomastoideus

ORIGIN: From the anterior tip of the manubrium.

INSERTION: Via an aponeurosis on a small ridge just posterior to the base of the zygomatic arch, together with M. cleidomastoideus .

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in Condylura , Neurotrichus , Parascalops , Scalopus , Scapanus , Scaptonyx ,

Talpa , and Urotrichus . In Uropsilus , it originates from the dorsal surface of the manubrium. An element in this position is absent in Desmana . This is the M. sternomastoideus pars profundus of Gaughran (1954).