Murænidæ (murenide)

pl. [NL., or separated by the tip of the tail, the sides of the upper jaw formed by the tooth-bearing maxillaries, the fore part by the intermaxillary (which is more or le coalescent with the vomer ethmoid), and the shoulder-girdle not attached to the skull. It corresponds to the Apodes and Lyomeri of recent systematists. (c) In Cope's system, a family of Colocephali, with three or fewer opercular bones, no scapular arch, no glo ohyal, and no o eous lateral murænoid (mu-rē'noid), a. and n. [ IMG:content-1104.png:[blocks in formation]