glossopharyngeal nerve in dogs

Cranial nerve that branches into the ramus communicans (to the skin), the pretrematic (to the walls of the pharynx and mouth, viscero-sensory fibers), and the larval post-trematic branch (lost in the adult). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the glossopharyngeal nerve is

Cranial nerve that branches into the ramus communicans (to the skin), the pretrematic (to the walls of the pharynx and mouth, viscero-sensory fibers), and the larval post-trematic branch (lost in the adult). The atlas records it as a nerve at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the glossopharyngeal nerve is

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

What the glossopharyngeal nerve connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of gustatory system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the glossopharyngeal nerve. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as 9n, glossopharyngeal IX, glossopharyngeal IX nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve [IX], glossopharyngeal nerve tree and nervus glossopharyngeus, and 5 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001649, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: gustatory system.
• A kind of: cranial nerve.
• Innervates: pharynx and taste bud.

Questions

Where is the glossopharyngeal nerve?

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

What does the glossopharyngeal nerve connect to?

Part of: gustatory system.

Is the glossopharyngeal nerve 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.