longus capitis muscle in dogs

A muscle that arises by four tendinous slips from the transverse processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae and inserts into the inferior surface of the basilar part of the occipital bone.[WP,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the longus capitis muscle is

A muscle that arises by four tendinous slips from the transverse processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cervical vertebrae and inserts into the inferior surface of the basilar part of the occipital bone.[WP,modified]. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the longus capitis muscle is

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What the longus capitis muscle connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.

Supply and innervation

Innervation: nerve of cervical vertebra.

Also called

Also recorded as longus capitis, m. rectus capitis posterior, longus capitus muscle, musculus longus capitis and rectus capitis anticus major. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001563, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Questions

Where is the longus capitis muscle?

It sits within the muscular system. Only the system is known. The position shown carries almost no spatial information.

What does the longus capitis muscle connect to?

A kind of: skeletal muscle organ, vertebrate.

Is the longus capitis muscle 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.