hindlimb in dogs

A (free) limb that is connected to a pelvic girdle region. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pelvic girdle and its parts. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the hindlimb is

A (free) limb that is connected to a pelvic girdle region. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the pelvic girdle and its parts. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the hindlimb is

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

What the hindlimb connects to

The atlas records 70 typed relationships for it, across 11 kinds of connection. part of appendage girdle complex and pelvic complex.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: peroneal artery. Venous drainage: external iliac vein. Innervation: lumbosacral nerve plexus.

Also called

Also recorded as free lower limb, hind limb, hind-limb, hindlimb, inferior member and lower limb, and 4 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002103, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: appendage girdle complex and pelvic complex.
• A kind of: anatomical structure, appendage, limb and organism subdivision.
• Connected to: pelvic girdle region.
• contains: ankle joint, calcaneus, cuboid bone, distal tarsal bone 1, distal tarsal bone 2 and distal tarsal bone 3, and 49 more.
• contributes to morphology of: hindlimb stylopod and hindlimb zeugopod.
• Develops from: hindlimb bud.
• has skeleton: hindlimb skeleton.
• Drained by: external iliac vein.

Questions

Where is the hindlimb?

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

What does the hindlimb connect to?

Part of: appendage girdle complex and pelvic complex.

Is the hindlimb 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.