gluteus maximus in dogs

The largest and most superficial of the three gluteal muscles [WP,unvetted]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gluteus maximus is

The largest and most superficial of the three gluteal muscles [WP,unvetted]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the gluteus maximus is

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

What the gluteus maximus connects to

The atlas records 11 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of musculature of pelvic girdle.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gluteus maximus. 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 gluteus maximus muscle, glutæus maximus, m.gluteus maximus, glutaeus maximus muscle, gluteus superficialis and musculus gluteus maximus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001370, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: musculature of pelvic girdle.
• A kind of: gluteal muscle and muscle of pelvis.
• antagonist of: iliacus muscle, psoas major muscle, psoas minor muscle, iliopsoas and psoas muscle.
• originates from: fused sacrum and ilium.
• inserts into: femur.

Questions

Where is the gluteus maximus?

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

What does the gluteus maximus connect to?

Part of: musculature of pelvic girdle.

Is the gluteus maximus 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.