stylopharyngeus muscle
The stylopharyngeus is a muscle in the head that stretches between the styloid process and the pharynx. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.
What the stylopharyngeus muscle is
The stylopharyngeus is a muscle in the head that stretches between the styloid process and the pharynx. The atlas records it as a muscle at the organ scale in the human body.
Where the stylopharyngeus muscle is
It sits within the muscular, respiratory and digestive systems. 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 stylopharyngeus muscle connects to
The atlas records 13 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of chordate pharynx, digestive system and material anatomical entity, and 1 more.
Supply and innervation
Innervation: glossopharyngeal nerve and nerve to stylopharyngeus from glossopharyngeal nerve.
Also called
Also recorded as stylopharyngeus, M. stylopharyngeus and musculus stylopharyngeus. Searching any of those names reaches this page.
Source
Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0008804, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.
- Part of: chordate pharynx, digestive system, material anatomical entity and respiratory system.
- A kind of: anatomical structure, chordate pharyngeal muscle, muscle organ and organ.
- Innervated by: glossopharyngeal nerve and nerve to stylopharyngeus from glossopharyngeal nerve.
- Develops from: pharyngeal arch 3.
- inserts into: thyroid cartilage.
- originates from: styloid process of temporal bone.
Questions
Where is the stylopharyngeus muscle?
It sits within the muscular, respiratory and digestive systems. 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 stylopharyngeus muscle connect to?
Part of: chordate pharynx, digestive system, material anatomical entity and respiratory system.
Is the stylopharyngeus muscle 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.