Where it is
Around the base of the ear, with the scutiform cartilage in the front group.
- Layer
- Muscles
- System
- Facial muscles
- Region
- Head
What it is and what it does
The auricular muscles are the small groups of muscles that move the pinna: the rostral group, which contains the scutiform cartilage, a flat plate in front of the ear, and the caudal group. Sisson lists in the dog the scutularis, the anterior auricular muscles, the helicis, the antitragicus and the parotidoauricularis. All are supplied by the facial nerve, which serves the superficial muscles of the head and of the external ear.
Worth remembering
Their exact number does not appear in a verifiable source; the groups do.
Names
- Latin term: mm. auriculares.
- In Romanian: Mușchii auriculari (Romanian page).