Mogera iliacus

WHIDDEN, HOWARD P., 2000, Comparative Myology of Moles and the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), American Museum Novitates 3294, pp. 1-53 : 33

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

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF8784-A441-FFF4-7AAD-FAF7FB9C43A8

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scientific name

Mogera iliacus
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M. iliacus ( fig. 15 View Fig )

ORIGIN: From the ventral surface of the ramus of the ilium and from the ventral surfaces of the last lumbar and first sacral vertebrae.

INSERTION: On the lesser trochanter of the femur, distal to the insertion of M. psoas major .

REMARKS: This muscle has the same general form in Condylura , Galemys , Neurotrichus , Parascalops , Scalopus , Scapanus , Scaptonyx , Talpa , Uropsilus , and Urotrichus . Mm. iliacus and psoas major lie close together, inserting side by side on the lesser

trochanter, and Leche (1883) considered them one muscle, M. iliopsoas.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Soricomorpha

Family

Talpidae

Genus

Mogera

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