| Glossary Term starting with D |
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| Dacriform |
| Daeng |
| Daggertooth |
| Dahn line |
| Dam |
| Damping capacity |
| Damselfishes |
| Danish pond |
| Danish seine |
| Daphnids |
| Dark meat |
| Dark spotted moray |
| Darwin |
| Darwinism |
| Data |
| Data Definition Language |
| Data dictionary |
| Data flow model |
| Data model |
| Database |
| Database Management System |
| Dataset |
| Datastore |
| Date of publication |
| Daughter cell |
| Davis Museum of Wildlife & Fisheries Biology, California |
| Davis Strait |
| Day degree |
| Dayton Museum of Natural History |
| DBF format |
| DDT |
| De novo vitellogenesis |
| Death |
| Debris |
| Deca |
| Decalcify |
| Decapods |
| Decibel |
| Deciduous |
| Deciduous scales |
| Decision tree |
| Decision-maker |
| Declaration |
| Declivous |
| Decomposer |
| Decomposition |
| Decumbent |
| Decurved |
| Decussating |
| Dedifferentiation |
| Deep bottom area |
| Deep epipelagic |
| Deep lagoon floor |
| Deep layer |
| Deep pass |
| Deep scaterring layer (DSL) |
| Deep scattering layer |
| Deep water |
| Deep-sea |
| Deep-sea anglerfish |
| Deep-sea smelts |
| Deep-sea spiny eels |
| Deepwater cardinalfishes |
| Deepwater flatheads |
| Deepwater stingray |
| Defaecate |
| Defect |
| Deficiency disease |
| Definition |
| Definitive host |
| Deflected climax community (plagioclimax) |
| Deformity |
| Degenerate |
| Degeneration |
| Degradative succession |
| Degree days |
| Dehydrated fish |
| Dehydration |
| Delayed release |
| Deleterious |
| Deletions |
| Delicatessild |
| Delikatesill |
| Delikatessild |
| Delimitation |
| Delta T |
| Demand feeder |
| Deme |
| Demersal |
| Demersal egg |
| Demersal spawner |
| Demographic |
| Denatant |
| Denaturation |
| Dendogram |
| Dendritic |
| Dendritic organ |
| Denitrification |
| Density |
| Density dependence |
| Dentary |
| Dentate |
| Denticle |
| Denticle herring |
| Denticulate |
| Dentigerous |
| Dentine |
| Dentition |
| Deoxygenated |
| Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kochi University |
| Department of Life Sciences, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine |
| Depauperate |
| Depensation |
| Depensatory |
| Deposit feeder |
| Depressed |
| Depression |
| Depth |
| Depth of caudal peduncle |
| Derived |
| Dermal |
| Dermal bone |
| Dermal flaps |
| Dermal processes |
| Dermatitis |
| Dermatomycosis |
| Dermatoses |
| Dermis |
| Dermocranium |
| Derris |
| Descargamento |
| Description |
| Desiccated |
| Desiccated codfish |
| Designation |
| Desmids |
| Determinate fecundity |
| Deterministic |
| Detrimental |
| Detritus |
| Deutscher Kaviar |
| Dew point |
| Dewlap |
| Dextral |
| Diacritic mark |
| Diadromous |
| Diagnosis |
| Diagonal calcifications |
| Diallelic |
| Diandric |
| Diandry |
| Diapause |
| Diaphanous |
| Diarrhea |
| Diastema |
| Diatom |
| Diatoms |
| Diced fish |
| Dichlorvos |
| Dichotomous key |
| Dichromatic |
| Dichromatism |
| Dicotyledoneae |
| Diel |
| Diencephalon |
| Diet |
| Dietary fiber |
| Differentiation |
| Diffuse spring |
| Diffusion |
| Diffusion coefficient |
| Digenic |
| Digestability |
| Digestion |
| Digitiform gland |
| Digitiser |
| Digitized format |
| Dignathic |
| Dilated |
| Diluent |
| Dilution water |
| Dimethyl sulphide |
| Dimictic |
| Dimorphic |
| Dimpling |
| Dinailan |
| Dinoflagellate |
| Dinogunellin |
| Dioecious |
| Dioxin |
| Dip |
| Dip net |
| Dip-net |
| Dipartimento di Scienze ambientali, L'Aquila, Italy |
| Diphagous |
| Diphycercal |
| Diplo- |
| Diplobiont |
| Diploid |
| Diploidazation |
| Diplomystid catfishes |
| Diplont |
| Diplospondylous |
| Diplospondylous vertebrae |
| Direct length |
| Directed fishery |
| Directional selection |
| Directory Interchange Format |
| Disarticulated |
| Disc |
| Discard |
| Discharge |
| Discharge plume |
| Disciform |
| Discoidal organ |
| Discomitochondria |
| Disease |
| Disinfectant |
| Disinfection |
| Disjunct |
| Disjunct distribution |
| Disjunction |
| Disk length |
| Disk width |
| Dispermy |
| Dispersal |
| Dispersant |
| Dispersion |
| Displacement |
| Dissemination |
| Disseminule |
| Dissolved organic matter |
| Dissolved oxygen |
| Dissolved volatile solids |
| Distad |
| Distal |
| Distensible |
| Distinctiveness |
| Disturbance |
| Diurnal |
| Diurnal migration |
| Diurnal rhythm |
| Divergence |
| Diversity |
| Diversity index |
| Diverticulum |
| Division |
| Division of Fisheries Sciences |
| Dizygotic |
| Djirim |
| DNA |
| DOC |
| Doctor fish |
| Dog fish |
| Dogfish sharks |
| Dolphins |
| Domestication |
| Dominance |
| Dominant |
| Dopamine |
| Dories |
| Dorsad |
| Dorsal |
| Dorsal and anal fin ray counts |
| Dorsal fin |
| Dorsicranium |
| Dorsolateral |
| Dorsoventral |
| Dorsum |
| Dose |
| Dose-response curve |
| Dottybacks |
| Double emarginate |
| Double pump |
| Dragonets |
| Drawdown |
| Drawn |
| Dredge |
| Dredged fish |
| Dredging |
| Dressed |
| Dressed fish |
| Dressing weight |
| Dried fish |
| Dried salted fish |
| Drift net |
| Driftfishes |
| Drifting longline |
| Driftline |
| Driftwood catfishes |
| Drills |
| Dromous |
| Dropline |
| Dropline fishing |
| Dropsy |
| Drums or croakers |
| Dry caviar |
| Dry fish |
| Dry salted fish |
| Dualistic reproductive behavior |
| Dubbel gerookte steurharing |
| Dubisch method |
| Dubisch pond |
| Duckbill eels |
| Duckbills |
| Duct |
| Ductus endolymphaticus |
| Ductus pneumaticus |
| Duke University, North Carolina |
| Dulse |
| Dum fish |
| Dumb fish |
| Dun fish |
| Duplications |
| Durophagus |
| Dusky |
| Dwarfism |
| Dynamic Data Exchange |
| Dynamite fishing |
| Dys- |
| Dysfunction |
| Dysploid |
| Dystrophic |