Hyoid muscle that originates at the ventrolateral margin of the pterotic and inserts in the dorsomesial edge of the opercle. The levator operculi is responible for jaw depression, its force of contraction is transmitted through the opercular series and the interoperculo-mandibular ligament to the lower jaw. [ ZFA:0000537 ]
Synonyms: levator operculae levator operculi muscle
Term information
- ZFA:0000537
- VHOG:0000813
- TAO:0000537
The depressor mandibulae of tetrapods, which opens the jaws, is the homologue of the levator operculi and epihyoidean. In mammals, the depressor mandibulae evolves into the stapedius (...).[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- hyoid muscle
- has muscle insertion some opercle
- develops from some pharyngeal arch 2
- innervated_by some facial nerve