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Fragments from the book Huxley T.H. A manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals (1880). The author writes about the presence and absence of ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) in some animal species.  


Quote p. 283

The Phytophaga are divisible into two groups, one existing, and the other extinct. The former consists of the Sloths, or Tardigrada; remarkable animals, which are confined to the great forests of South America, where they lead a purely arboreal life, suspended by their strong, hooklike, claws to the

branches of the trees.

The pelvis is exceedingly spacious, and the acetabula are directed backward as well as outward. The femur is devoid of a ligamentum teres. The distal end of the fibula sends inward a process which fits into a fossa situated upon the outer surface of the astragalus, giving rise to that kind of peg-and-socket ankle-joint which is peculiar to these animals. 


Quote p. 300

Horse

The femur has a large third trochanter (3, Fig. 100), into which the gluteus maximus is inserted. Its head presents a deep pit for the round ligament, and there is a peculiar and very characteristic fossa (10) on the inner and posterior face of the distal moiety of the bone.  

Fig. 100. A, Left femur of a Horse, posterior view. 1. Head. 2. Great trochanter. 3. Third trochanter. 4. Lesser trochanter. 5. Pit for round ligament. 10. Fossa. 11. Condyles.


Quote p. 315

Non- Ruminantia, Suidae [pigs]

The femur has a round ligament. 


Quote p. 365

Proboscidea [Elephantidae]

The ilia are immensely expanded transversely. The femur, which is not connected by any round ligament to the acetabulum, is relatively long and slender; and, when the animal is at rest, is directed perpendicularly to the axis of the trunk, not bent up, so as to form an acute angle with that axis, as it is in ordinary quadrupeds. 


Quote p. 377

Hedgehog (Erinaceus Europaeus)

The pelvis is remarkably spacious. The symphysial union of the pubes is always small, and, sometimes, the bones remain separate. The subpubic arch is much rounded. The ilium is narrow, and a mere ridge separates the iliac fossa from the gluteal surface. The femur has a round ligament, and a prominent ridge represents a third trochanter. The distal ends of the tibia and fibula are anchylosed together. 


Quote p. 399

Cynomorpha [lower monkeys]

The femur has a round ligament. 


Quote p. 407

The femur of the Orang has no round ligament, and differs in this respect from the same bone in the other Anthropomorpha. The femur of the Gorilla resembles that of Man, most especially in the projection of the articular surface of the inner condyle beyond the outer.  



External links

Huxley T.H. A manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals. D. Appleton, 1880. [books.google] 

Authors & Affiliations

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825- 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist, professor at the Royal School of Mines, Royal Institution, Royal College of Surgeons. [wikipedia.org]

Thomas Henry Huxley (1880 or earlier)
Author print by Lock & Whitfield;
 original in the wikimedia.org collection
(CC0 – Public Domain, color correction)
 

Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, animals, absence

                                                                    

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