gustatory system in dogs

The sensory system for the sense of taste. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the gustatory system is

The sensory system for the sense of taste. The atlas records it as a system at the system scale in the dog.

Where the gustatory system is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the gustatory system connects to

The atlas records 7 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. a kind of anatomical system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the gustatory system. 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 gustatory organ system and taste system. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001033, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: anatomical system.
• contains: facial nerve, glossopharyngeal nerve, taste bud, tongue and vagus nerve.
• contributes to morphology of: taste bud.

Questions

Where is the gustatory system?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the gustatory system connect to?

A kind of: anatomical system.

Is the gustatory system 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.