occipital lobe

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 human body.

Where the occipital lobe is

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the occipital lobe connects to

The atlas records 25 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. part of cerebral cortex.

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.
• A kind of: lobe of cerebral hemisphere.
• Adjacent to: parietal lobe and temporal lobe.
• contains: anterior occipital sulcus, central sulcus of insula, cuneus cortex, inferior occipital gyrus, intralingual sulcus and lateral occipital cortex, and 11 more.
• subtype: left occipital lobe and right occipital lobe.
• contributes to morphology of: telencephalon.
• Supplied by: posterior cerebral artery.

Questions

Where is the occipital lobe?

It sits within the nervous system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the occipital lobe connect to?

Part of: cerebral cortex.

Is the occipital lobe the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.