Colocephali (kolosefali)

pl. colocephalus: see colocephalous.] physostomous fishes having no pre coracoid arch, no pre operculum, and no symplectic, maxillary, or pterygoid bones. It was constituted for the typical Murænid a. Cope, 1870. colocephalous (kol-ō-sef'a-lus), a. [NL. colo cephalus, which it lives, especially to the monkeys.