anterior
From ZooTerms (Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology)
anterior (adjective; Latin ante, before): 1. Before or toward the front.
2. Pertaining to the direction in which the head tends to point when an animal is active.
3. (Mollusca: Gastropoda) In a crawling gastropod, pertaining to the head being closest to that part of the apertural margin lying farthest from the shell apex; in high-spired conispiral shells, and some others, anterior is equivalent to abapical.
