Cervicoscutular muscle

The cervicoscutularis muscle is a fleshy, thick, wide, and superficial band. It lies caudal to the interscutularis muscle, and is extended from the temporal line to the caudal portion of the scutiform cartilage. It may be largely united with the cervicoauricularis superficialis muscle in the carnivore or the interscutularis muscle in the horse and the pig.

Origin: caudal part of the external sagittal crest (or medial roughness of the interparietal bone in ruminants) and adjacent part of the nuchal crest or cervical raphe

Insertion: caudal border of the scutiform cartilage

Artery: caudal auricular artery

Nerve: caudal auricular nerve

Action: pulls the scutiform cartilage in a medial direction, raises the ear

Antagonist: parotidoauricularis muscle