pes in dogs

Distal portion of the hind limb, including tarsal region, metatarsal region and digits. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the pes is

Distal portion of the hind limb, including tarsal region, metatarsal region and digits. The atlas records it as a region at the region scale in the dog.

Where the pes is

It sits in the hindlimb and hindpaw. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the pes connects to

The atlas records 67 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of hindlimb.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: dorsalis pedis artery.

Also called

Also recorded as foot, hindlimb autopod, hindlimb autopodium, hindlimb distal free limb segment, pes and terminal segment of free lower limb, and 8 more. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002387, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: hindlimb.
• A kind of: autopod region and limb segment.
• contains: distal phalanx of pedal digit 1, distal phalanx of pedal digit 2, distal phalanx of pedal digit 3, distal phalanx of pedal digit 4, distal phalanx of pedal digit 5 and distal phalanx of pes, and 54 more.
• Develops from: embryonic footplate.
• has skeleton: skeleton of pes.
• overlaps: ankle joint.
• Supplied by: dorsalis pedis artery.

Questions

Where is the pes?

It sits in the hindlimb and hindpaw. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the pes connect to?

Part of: hindlimb.

Is the pes 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.