occipital lobe in dogs

Posterior part of the cerebral hemisphere (MSH). Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the occipital lobe is

Posterior part of the cerebral hemisphere (MSH). The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the occipital lobe is

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the occipital lobe connects to

The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of cerebral cortex, cerebral hemisphere and organ.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: posterior cerebral artery.

Also called

Also recorded as regio occipitalis and lobus occipitalis. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002021, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: cerebral cortex, cerebral hemisphere and organ.
• A kind of: anatomical structure.
• Adjacent to: parietal lobe and temporal lobe.
• contains: lingual gyrus, occipital cortex, occipital pole, primary visual cortex and secondary visual cortex.
• contributes to morphology of: telencephalon.
• Supplied by: posterior cerebral artery.

Questions

Where is the occipital lobe?

It sits within the nervous system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the occipital lobe connect to?

Part of: cerebral cortex, cerebral hemisphere and organ.

Is the occipital lobe 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.