Glossary term starting with C

n = 609

calcified cartilage

Cales and weed-whitings

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, SU

California State University Sacramento, Ichthyology Collection

Californian incubator

Callichthyid armored catfishes

Canadian Museum of Nature, Ontario

capacity building

capillary water

captive breeding

captivity degradation

carbon dioxide (CO2)

carbonate alkalinity

cardiac puncture

cardiform teeth

Carne con carne

carotid foramen

Carpet or nurse sharks

carrying capacity

cartilaginous fishes

catch per unit of effort

catcher-processor

catchment basin

caudal filament

caudal fin ray counts

caudal peduncle

caudal peduncle scale rows

caudal vertebra

caudal vertebrae

Cauliflower disease

cause-specific mortality rate

Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin, India

Central Processing Unit

cephalic clasper

cephalic vesicle

Cephalochordata

ceratobranchial

cervical photophore

character displacement

charismatic species

Charles R. Conner Museum, Washington State University

chemical filtration

chemical oxygen demand (COD)

Chilean seabass

chloramphenicol

chlorine residual

chlortetracyline

chondrichthyans

choroid fissure

chromaffin tissue

chronological order

Chulalongkorn University Museum

ciguatera poisoning

ciguatoxic fishes

circadian rhythm

circumference scale count

circumnarial fold

circumnarial grooves

circumpeduncular scale count

clamping of fin and tail

clasper flexion

cleaner fish imitator

Cleanplate herring

Cleansed shellfish

cleavage stages

cleithral symphysis

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

Cleptoparasitism

climax community

Climbing catfishes

Climbing gouramies

Clingfishes and singleslits

clinical infection

clipped roefish

clupeotoxic fishes

coastal convergence

Cods and haddocks

coefficient of ecological efficiency

coefficient of permeability

coefficient of viscosity

cohort analysis

cold resistance

Cold-smoked fish

coldwater disease

Collared carpet sharks

collective group

collective-group name

colloidal particles

colloidal suspension

Colorado State University, Colorado

Columnaris disease

combined selection

Combtooth blennies

Common property resource

common property resource management

Commonwealth Science & Industrial Research Organization

communicable disease

community structure

compensation depth

compensation light intensity

compensatory growth

compensatory survival

competitive association

competitive exclusion

competitive exclusion principle

competitive release

complemental male

Complementary freshwater fishes

completely land ringed atoll

Computer Aided Design

Computer Aided Software Engineering

Condensed fish solubles

condition factor

consecutive hermaphrodite

consumptive use

contagious disease

continental climate

continental distribution

continental drift

continental island

continental margin

continental ocean

continental rise

continental shelf

continental shelf ecosystems

continental shelf edge

continental slope

contour interval

conventional printing

conversion efficiency

cooling stresses

copulation (mating)

copyist's error

coralline algae

Coriolis effect

cormorant fishing

Corned alewives

Cornell University, New York

corrected statement of a type locality

country of origin

country of receipt

courtship ritual

craniomandibular muscles

critical thermal maximum (CTM)

critical velocity

critically endangered

Crocodile icefishes

cross infection

cross over value (COV)

crossing claspers

cryogenic storage

cryopreservation

culture-based capture fishery

current commercial practice

Cut spiced herring

cyclic succession

cyclo-ctenoid scale

cyclostome poisoning

cytoplasmic DNA

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