Glossary term starting with M

n = 393

Mackerel sharks

mainstream flow

maintenance food consumption

Makassar Strait

mandible length

mandibular symphysis

Manta rays and devil rays

many deep passes/open atoll

Marbled catfishes

marginal habitat

Marine Protected Area

Marine Research Section

Marine Science Institute of Andalusia (ICMAN)

Marinerad stekt sill

Marinoitu silakkarulla

mark-recapture study

marketable size

masculinisation

Matje cured herring

matriachal family

matriarch/patriarch family

matroclinous inheritance

matrotrophic viviparity

Matthiessen's ratio

Mauthner's axon

maxillary extension

maxillary length

maximum economic yield

maximum equilibrium catch

maximum potential yield

maximum standing crop

maximum sustainable yield

maximum yield-per-recruit

mechano-receptor

Meckel's cartilage

medial cartilage

Median effective concentration

Median lethal concentration

median predorsal scales

Mediterranean cure

Mediterranean Sea

medulla oblongata

megadiversity countries

Megamouth sharks

Memorial University, Department of Biology, Newfoundland

Memphis State University Museum of Zoology, Tennessee

meristic characters

Merluccid hakes

mermaid's purse

microencapsulated diets

microprobe analysis

mid-oceanic ridge

Middle Atlantic Bight

midwater pair trawl

Midwestern State University

mild cured fish

mild smoked fish

Milwaukee Public Museum, Wisconsin

minimum biological acceptable level

minimum landing size

minimum mesh size

Minimum Viable Population

Minnows or carps

minor commercial

misidentification

Mississippi Museum of Natural History, Mississippi

Mississippi State University, Mississippi

Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri

mitochondrial DNA

moat and depression

model population

Monocotyledoneae

monocyclic fish

monospondylous precaudal vertebrae

monospondylous-diplospondylous transition

Moonfishes or fingerfishes

morphometric character

morphometric characters

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California

Mother-of-pearl

mountain processes

Mozambique Channel

mucous membrane

multimedia system

Murray State University, Kentucky

Musée d'Histoire naturelle, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

Musée d'Histoire naturelle, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Musée Guimet d'Histoire naturelle de Lyon

Musée Océanographique, Monaco

Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, Tervuren

Musée zoologique de l'Université Pasteur et de la Ville de Strasbourg

Museo civico di Storia naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova, Italy

Museo civico di Storia naturale, Carmagnola, Italy

Museo civico di Storia naturale, Milano

Museo civico Storia naturale, Verona, Italy

Museo de Ciencias Naturales

Museo di Storia naturale dell'Università, Firenze, Italy

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid

Museu Bocage, Lisboa

Museu de Biologia, Universidad Central de Venezuela

Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Museu municipal do Funchal (Natural History), Madeira, Portugal

Museul de Istorie Naturala "Grigore Antipa"

Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Bordeaux

Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Geneve

Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, La Rochelle

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Saint-Denis, Ile de La Réunion, France

Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität, Zoologisches Museum, Berlin

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris

Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland

Museum of Nature at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Museum of the Institute of Marine Biology, National Sun Yat-Sen University

Museum of Zoology, Lund, Sweden

Museum of Zoology, University of Bergen

Mustard herring

myelenocephalon

Müllerian mimicry

myomere formula

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