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

M. gluteus maximus ( fig. 14 )

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.

Figures

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