sublingual gland in dogs

The small mucin-producing salivary glands in the floor of the mouth beneath the tongue, anterior to the submandibular gland. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the sublingual gland is

The small mucin-producing salivary glands in the floor of the mouth beneath the tongue, anterior to the submandibular gland. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the sublingual gland is

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

What the sublingual gland connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 4 kinds of connection. a kind of major salivary gland.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: sublingual artery.

Also called

Also recorded as Rivinus' gland, ductus sublingualis, Rivinus gland, glandula sublingualis, sublingual salivary gland and submaxillary gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001832, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: major salivary gland.
• Supplied by: sublingual artery.
• contributes to morphology of: sublingual duct.
• contains: sublingual duct.

Questions

Where is the sublingual gland?

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

What does the sublingual gland connect to?

A kind of: major salivary gland.

Is the sublingual gland 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.