The alligator and its alliesReese, A. M. (Albert Moore)
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The alligator and its allies
Reese, A. M. (Albert Moore)
Alligators
_Femoro-tibialis_ (Plate III., Fig. 1, fm. tb., Plate IV., Fig. 2, fm.
tb., Plate V., Figs. 1 and 3, fm. tb.) (Cruræus et Vasti, Cruralis).
Arises by an anterior inner and a posterior outer head; both heads
arise from the outer-anterior and inner surfaces of the femur, and
unite with each other and with the extensor ilio-tibialis and ambiens
muscles as a strong tendon, which extends over the knee and is inserted
on the anterior border of the head of the tibia; this tendon incloses,
like a sheath, the end-tendon of the ambiens muscle.
_Ilio-fibularis_ (Plate III., Fig. 2, il. fib., Plate IV., Fig. 2,
il. fib., Plate V., Fig. 3, il. fib.) (Biceps cruris, Semitendinosus +
Semimembranosus, Glutæus maximus, Abductor fibularis, Flexor abductor
cruris). This consists, in the Crocodilia, of two entirely separate
small, band-like muscles. The first springs by a short tendon from
the lateral surface of the middle ilium, very near the origin of the
caudali-ilio-femoralis and extensor ilio-tibialis muscles. The chief
part of the end-tendon is inserted at the end of the first sixth of the
fibula, on its outer-forward corner near the origin of the peroneus
anterior muscle; a shorter tendon-branch goes to the tendon of the
peroneus posterior muscle; and a third, still smaller branch goes to
the caput femorale of the gastrocnemius muscle, by which it contributes
to the structure of the lateral part of the tendo-communis externus.
The second part springs, by an equally short tendon, very near the
first, from the hinder end of the dorsal crest of the ilium, goes
directly over the preceding to the knee, where its tendon unites with
that of the extensor ilio-tibialis muscle.
_Ilio-femoralis_ (Plate III., Fig. 2, il. fm., Plate IV., Fig. 2, il.
fm., Plate V., Fig. 1, il. f.) (Glutæus, Quadratus femoris [?], Glutæus
medius). This muscle is inwardly fused with the caudali-ilio-femoralis,
whose anterior part it forms.
_Caudali-ilio-femoralis_ (Plate III., Fig. 2, cd. il. fm., Plate
IV., Fig. 1, cd. il. fm.) (Zweiter Auswärtsroller, Extensor femoris
caudalis accessorius, Glutæus minimus). This forms a thick mass that
springs directly from the lateral surface of the anterior and middle
parts of the ilium, is covered outside by the ilio-fibularis muscle,
and, pushing between the two heads of the femoro-tibialis muscle, is
inserted on the whole outer surface of the middle third of the femur.
_Caudi-femoralis_ (Plate III., Figs. 1 and 2, cd. fm., Plate
IV., Fig. 1, cd. fm.) (Pyriformis, Pyriformis + Subcaudalis,
Femoro-peroneo-coccygeus, Extensor femoris caudalis). This muscle in
the Crocodilia consists of two parts:
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