cephalata

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. A prime division of mollusks, including those with a head, generally provided with tentacles, eyes, and a mouth armed with jaws, as gastropods, pteropods, and cephalopods: same as Cephalophora, 1, or Encephala: the opposite of Acephala.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix.