flexor hallucis longus in dogs

A deep muscle of the posterior compartment of the hindlimb that is innervated by the tibial nerve, arises from the fibula and insets in the distal phalanx of pedal digit 1. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the flexor hallucis longus is

A deep muscle of the posterior compartment of the hindlimb that is innervated by the tibial nerve, arises from the fibula and insets in the distal phalanx of pedal digit 1. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the flexor hallucis longus is

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What the flexor hallucis longus connects to

The atlas records 6 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of leg.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: tibial nerve.

Also called

Also recorded as flexor hallucis longus muscle. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001392, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: leg.
• A kind of: flexor muscle and muscle of leg.
• Innervated by: tibial nerve.
• inserts into: distal phalanx of pedal digit 1.
• originates from: fibula.

Questions

Where is the flexor hallucis longus?

It sits in the hindlimb, within the muscular system. Only the region is known. The position shown is somewhere plausible inside it and nothing more.

What does the flexor hallucis longus connect to?

Part of: leg.

Is the flexor hallucis longus the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.