On the myology of the terrestrial carnivora. Pt. I. Muscles of the head, neck, and fore-limb / by B.C.A. Windle and F.G. Parsons.

  • Windle, Bertram C. A. (Bertram Coghill Alan), 1858-1929.
Date:
1897
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Credit: On the myology of the terrestrial carnivora. Pt. I. Muscles of the head, neck, and fore-limb / by B.C.A. Windle and F.G. Parsons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lihomho ideas profundus (Trachelo-scapiilar, Levator scapulae minor).—This has been described by Macalister (XXXVIl.) as a lutrine muscle, but our own observations make us regard it as one of the most characteristic features of the whole of the Mustelidae. It occurs in Galictis vittata (63), Galictis harhara (64), Mustela putorius (65), Ictonyx zorilla (69), Ictonyx libycci (70), Meles taxus (71, 72), Lutra vulgaris (74, 75, 79), and Lutra c.inerea (78). Fig. 5. OCC. CK£S7. Co/^Pi-exus - -SPl£N. C/TP, Omo-tracheuan Rhomb. _ PROFUNDUS. Neck-muscles of Ictonyx lihyoa. Outside the Mustelidae we only find' it in two specimens of Cercoleptes (61, 62), which is of increased interest when we recall the evidence of the omo-hyoid in that animal. The origin is from the transverse process of the atlas, the insertion into the root of the scapular spine. In many cases the muscle has been described either as part of the rhomboideus capitis or of the acromio-trachelian, since it is connected with the latter at its origin and with the former at its insertion. It is supplied by the cervical nerves (see fig. 5). Hectus capitis ventralis (anticus) major and minor,—Both these muscles have the same attachments as in Man, the major coming from 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th cervical transverse processes, and the minor from the ventral arch of the atlas; they are both inserted into the basioccipital. Lowjus colli.—The longus colli consists chiefly of the anterior and posterior oblique parts: the latter rises f^m the anterior thoracic centra as far back as the 5th or 6th, and is inserted into the transverse processes of the posterior cervical vertebrse • the [13]