| Glossary Term starting with C |
| Search SeaLifeBase |
| Caducous |
| Caecum |
| Caenogenetic |
| Cage |
| Cage culture |
| Calcareous |
| Calcified cartilage |
| Calcite |
| Calcitran |
| Caldera |
| 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 |
| Calipash |
| Callichthyid armored catfishes |
| Callus |
| Calorie |
| Camouflage |
| Camptotrichia |
| Canadian Museum of Nature, Ontario |
| Cancellous |
| Cancer |
| Candle |
| Cannibalism |
| Cannulation |
| Canthaxantin |
| Canyon |
| Capacity building |
| Capillary water |
| Capital value |
| Captive breeding |
| Captivity degradation |
| Carageenan |
| Carangiform |
| Carapace |
| Carbohydrate |
| Carbon dioxide (CO2) |
| Carbonate alkalinity |
| Carcass |
| Carcharhinoid |
| Carcinogenic |
| Carcinoma |
| Cardiac puncture |
| Cardiform |
| Cardiform teeth |
| Cardinalfishes |
| Cardioid scale |
| Caribbean Sea |
| Carinate |
| Carne a carne |
| Carne con carne |
| Carne-a-carne |
| Carnivorous |
| Carotenoid |
| Carotenoids |
| Carotid foramen |
| Carpet or nurse sharks |
| Carr |
| Carrageenin |
| Carrier |
| Carrier state |
| Carry |
| Carrying capacity |
| Cartesian well |
| Cartilage |
| Cartilaginous fishes |
| Caruncle |
| Case |
| Casque-like |
| Cast net |
| Castnet |
| Cat sharks |
| Catabolism |
| Catadromous |
| Catalyst |
| Cataract |
| Catch |
| Catch curve |
| Catch per unit of effort |
| Catchability |
| Catcher vessel |
| Catcher-processor |
| Catchment |
| Catchment area |
| Catchment basin |
| Catfish ball |
| Caudad |
| Caudal |
| Caudal filament |
| Caudal fin |
| Caudal fin ray counts |
| Caudal flexure |
| Caudal fulcrum |
| Caudal keel |
| Caudal peduncle |
| Caudal peduncle scale rows |
| Caudal pit |
| Caudal vertebra |
| Caudal vertebrae |
| Cauliflower disease |
| Cause-specific mortality rate |
| Cave fish |
| Caveached fish |
| Cavebasses |
| Cavefishes |
| Cavernous |
| Caviale |
| Caviar |
| Caviare |
| Cavity brooder |
| CD-ROM |
| Celebes Sea |
| Cell |
| Cellulase |
| Cellulose |
| Celtic Sea |
| Cement gland |
| Cenote |
| Centner |
| Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin, India |
| Central Processing Unit |
| Centromere |
| Centrum |
| Cephalic |
| Cephalic clasper |
| Cephalic lobe |
| Cephalic vesicle |
| Cephalochordata |
| Cephalopoda |
| Cephalopods |
| Cephalothorax |
| Ceram Sea |
| Ceratobranchial |
| Ceratotrichia |
| Cercaria |
| Cerebellum |
| Ceroid |
| Cervical photophore |
| Cestoda |
| Cestode worms |
| Cetaceans |
| Ceviche |
| Chaetognaths |
| Chafing gear |
| Challenge |
| Chaotic |
| Characins |
| Character |
| Character displacement |
| Charismatic species |
| Charles R. Conner Museum, Washington State University |
| Chaviári |
| Check |
| Checklist |
| Cheek |
| Cheek height |
| Cheironym |
| Cheirotype |
| Chela |
| Chelation |
| Chemical filtration |
| Chemical oxygen demand (COD) |
| Chemoreception |
| Chemoreceptor |
| Chemosynthesis |
| Chemotaxis |
| Chemotherapy |
| Chest |
| Chevron |
| Chiasma |
| Chikuwa |
| Chilean seabass |
| Chilled fish |
| Chimaera |
| Chimaeras |
| Chimaeroid |
| Chin |
| Chironomids |
| Chitin |
| Chitinoid |
| Chitons |
| Chloramine |
| Chloramines |
| Chloramphenicol |
| Chlorine |
| Chlorine residual |
| Chlorinity |
| Chlorophyta |
| Chloroplast |
| Chlorosity |
| Chlortetracyline |
| Choanae |
| Cholangitis |
| Cholesterol |
| Choline |
| Chondrichthyans |
| Chondrichthyes |
| Chondrocranium |
| Chordata |
| Chorion |
| Choroid |
| Choroid fissure |
| Choroid tissue |
| Christmas fish |
| Chromaffin tissue |
| Chromatin |
| Chromatography |
| Chromatophore |
| Chromatophores |
| Chromatosis |
| Chromer |
| Chromosome |
| Chronic |
| Chronological order |
| Chryopsin |
| Chuckchi Sea |
| Chulalongkorn University Museum |
| Chum |
| Chute |
| Cichlids |
| Ciguatera |
| Ciguatera poisoning |
| Ciguatoxic fishes |
| Ciguatoxin |
| Cilia |
| Ciliate scale |
| Ciliated |
| Ciliates |
| Ciliiform |
| Ciliophora |
| Circadian |
| Circadian rhythm |
| Circuli |
| Circumaustral |
| Circumboreal |
| Circumference scale count |
| Circumglobal |
| Circumnarial fold |
| Circumnarial grooves |
| Circumorbitals |
| Circumpeduncular scale count |
| Circumpolar |
| Circumtropical |
| Cirrhi |
| Cirrhosis |
| Cirri |
| CITES |
| Citharids |
| Clade |
| Cladistics |
| Cladogenesis |
| Cladogram |
| Clam chowder |
| Clam liquor |
| Clasper |
| Clasper claws |
| Clasper dactyl |
| Clasper flexion |
| Clasper gaff |
| Clasper glans |
| Clasper groove |
| Clasper hooks |
| Clasper sacs |
| Clasper shaft |
| Clasper spine |
| Clasper spur |
| Claspers |
| Classification |
| Clavate |
| Clavicle |
| Claviform |
| Clavus |
| Clay |
| Cleaner fish imitator |
| Cleanplate herring |
| Cleansed shellfish |
| Cleavage stages |
| Cleft |
| Cleithral symphysis |
| Cleithrum |
| Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina |
| Cleptobiosis |
| Cleptoparasite |
| Cleptoparasitism |
| Client-server |
| Cliff |
| Climax community |
| Climbing catfishes |
| Climbing gouramies |
| Clinal |
| Cline |
| Clingfishes and singleslits |
| Clinical |
| Clinical infection |
| Clinids |
| Clinolimnion |
| Clinotaxis |
| Clipped roefish |
| Cloaca |
| Clone |
| Close fish |
| Closed season |
| Clupeoids |
| Clupeotoxic fishes |
| Clupeotoxin |
| Clupeotoxism |
| Clutch |
| Clysotremic |
| Cnidaria |
| Cnidarians |
| Co-management |
| Coagulation |
| Coalesced |
| Coarse fish |
| Coast |
| Coastal convergence |
| Coastal plain |
| Coastal waters |
| Coastline |
| Cobble |
| Cobble beach |
| Cobble field |
| Cobia |
| Coccidia |
| Coccolth ooze |
| Cochleariform |
| Cod icefishes |
| Code |
| Codend |
| Codfish brick |
| Codlets |
| Cods and haddocks |
| Coefficient of ecological efficiency |
| Coefficient of permeability |
| Coefficient of viscosity |
| Coelenterates |
| Coelom |
| Coexistence |
| Cohesion |
| Cohort |
| Cohort analysis |
| Coiled |
| Coiled gut |
| Colatura |
| Cold resistance |
| Cold smoked |
| Cold storage |
| Cold-smoked fish |
| Coldwater disease |
| Collared carpet sharks |
| Collection |
| Collective group |
| Collective-group name |
| Colloid |
| Colloidal particles |
| Colloidal suspension |
| Colombo cure |
| Colonisation |
| Colorado State University, Colorado |
| Colt |
| Columnaris disease |
| Comb jellies |
| Combination |
| Combined selection |
| Combtooth blennies |
| Commensal |
| Commensalism |
| Commensals |
| Commercial |
| Commission |
| Commissure |
| Common name |
| Common property resource |
| Common property resource management |
| Commonwealth Science & Industrial Research Organization |
| Communal |
| Communicable disease |
| Community |
| Community structure |
| Compaction |
| Compatible |
| Compensation |
| Compensation depth |
| Compensation light intensity |
| Compensatory growth |
| Compensatory survival |
| Competition |
| Competitive association |
| Competitive exclusion |
| Competitive exclusion principle |
| Competitive release |
| Complement |
| Complemental male |
| Complementary freshwater fishes |
| Complete diet |
| Completely land ringed atoll |
| Component |
| Compound feed |
| Compressed |
| Computer Aided Design |
| Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| Concave |
| Condensation |
| Condensed fish solubles |
| Condenser |
| Condition factor |
| Conditioning |
| Condyle |
| Cone |
| Confer |
| Confluence |
| Confluent |
| Congener |
| Congeneric |
| Congenital |
| Conger eels |
| Congestion |
| Congruence |
| Conical teeth |
| Coniferophyta |
| Conjoined |
| Connote |
| Consecutive hermaphrodite |
| Conservation |
| Conserved name |
| Conserved work |
| Conspecific |
| Constitution |
| Consumer |
| Consumptive use |
| Contact organ |
| Contagious disease |
| Contagiousness |
| Containment |
| Contiguous |
| Continental |
| Continental climate |
| Continental distribution |
| Continental drift |
| Continental island |
| Continental margin |
| Continental ocean |
| Continental rise |
| Continental shelf |
| Continental shelf ecosystems |
| Continental shelf edge |
| Continental slope |
| Continuity |
| Continuous |
| Contour |
| Contour interval |
| Control |
| Convection |
| Conventional printing |
| Convergence |
| Conversion efficiency |
| Convex |
| Convict blenny |
| Convoluted |
| Convolutions |
| Cooling stresses |
| Cooling tower |
| Coordinates |
| Copepod |
| Copepods |
| Coprophagy |
| Copula |
| Copulation |
| Copulation (mating) |
| Copyist's error |
| Coracidium |
| Coracoid |
| Coral |
| Coral Sea |
| Coralline algae |
| Corallophile |
| Corals |
| Cordillera |
| Core fish |
| Coriolis effect |
| Corium |
| Cormorant fishing |
| Cornea |
| Corned alewives |
| Cornell University, New York |
| Cornetfishes |
| Coronet |
| Corre fish |
| Corrected statement of a type locality |
| Correlation |
| Corrigendum |
| Corrosion |
| Corrugation |
| Corselet |
| Cosmopolitan |
| Costiasis |
| Costule |
| Cotype |
| Coulomb |
| Countershading |
| Counterstain |
| Country of origin |
| Country of receipt |
| Couplet |
| Court-bouillon |
| Courtship |
| Courtship bite |
| Courtship ritual |
| Covariance |
| Cove coastline |
| Cover pot |
| Cow sharks |
| Crab cakes |
| Crab sticks |
| Cranial |
| Cranial cavity |
| Cranial roof |
| Craniata |
| Craniomandibular muscles |
| Cranium |
| Crawfish meal |
| Creel |
| Creel survey |
| Crenate |
| Crenicolous |
| Crenon |
| Crenophile |
| Crenulate |
| Crepuscular |
| Crescentic |
| Crest |
| Crestfishes |
| Cretaceous |
| Crevicular |
| Critical depth |
| Critical thermal maximum (CTM) |
| Critical velocity |
| Critically endangered |
| Crocodile icefishes |
| Cross infection |
| Cross over value (COV) |
| Cross sea |
| Crossing claspers |
| Crossing over |
| Crown |
| Crown foot |
| Crustacea |
| Crustaceans |
| Crutching |
| Cryogenic lake |
| Cryogenic storage |
| Cryopelagic |
| Cryopreservation |
| Cryptic |
| Ctenactinium |
| Ctenii |
| Ctenoid |
| Ctenoid scales |
| Cuckoldry |
| Cull |
| Cultch |
| Cultivar |
| Cultrate |
| Cultriform |
| Culture |
| Culture-based capture fishery |
| Cummalmum |
| Cumulative |
| Cuneate |
| Cuneiform |
| Cup |
| Cura branca |
| Cura do gaspé |
| Curator |
| Currency |
| Current |
| Current commercial practice |
| Cusk-eels |
| Cusp |
| Cusplet |