| Glossary Term starting with R |
| Search SeaLifeBase |
| R-selected species |
| R-selection |
| Rabbitfishes |
| Race |
| Racehorses or pigfishes |
| Raceway |
| Rack |
| Rackling |
| Radial |
| Radial formula |
| Radiation |
| Radiograph |
| Radiometric ageing technique |
| Radius |
| Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research |
| Raft fishing |
| Raft trap |
| Ragfishes |
| Rains of fishes |
| Raising |
| Ram ventilation |
| Ramification |
| Ramifying |
| Ramp-marine bench |
| Ramus |
| Ranching |
| Rancidity |
| Random Access Memory |
| Random distribution |
| Rapacious |
| Rare |
| Rarity |
| Rassenkreis |
| Raster graphics |
| Rastrate |
| Rate of fishing |
| Rate of natural increase |
| Ration |
| Ravine pond |
| Ray |
| Rearing |
| Rearing habitat |
| Rearing pond |
| Rebound potential |
| Recent |
| Reciprocal translocation |
| Recombinant DNA technology |
| Record |
| Recreational fishery |
| Recrudescence |
| Recruit-to-spawner ratio |
| Recruitment |
| Recruitment curve |
| Recruitment overfishing |
| Recruits |
| Rectal gland |
| Rectilinear |
| Recto |
| Recurved |
| Red algae |
| Red caviar |
| Red Data Book |
| Red herring |
| Red patches on the skin |
| Red Sea |
| Red tide |
| Red velvetfishes |
| Redd |
| Redescription |
| Redfish oil |
| Redmouth whalefishes |
| Reduced |
| Reef |
| Reef area |
| Reef edge scarp |
| Reef hole |
| Reef islet |
| Reef limestone platform |
| Reef net |
| Reef top |
| Reef top openings |
| Reef-associated |
| Reference |
| Reference level |
| Reference point |
| Referral |
| Reflection of sound |
| Reflexed |
| Refuge |
| Refugium |
| Refuse fish |
| Regime shift |
| Regulative capacity |
| Rehabilitation |
| Reinstate |
| Reintroduced |
| Reintroduction |
| Reject |
| Rejected name |
| Rejected work |
| Relational database |
| Relational Database Management System |
| Relationship |
| Relative abundance |
| Relative conversion rate |
| Relative fecundity |
| Release |
| Releaser |
| Releasing stimulus |
| Relict |
| Relief |
| Remnant fecundity |
| Remoras |
| Reniform |
| Rensei-hin |
| Rent |
| Repack quality herring |
| Replacement name |
| Replacement series |
| Replacement yield |
| Representativeness |
| Reprint |
| Reproducing |
| Reproduction |
| Reproduction curve |
| Reproductive guild |
| Reproductive isolation |
| Reproductive load |
| Reproductive potential |
| Reptila |
| Reptile |
| Requiem sharks |
| Reservoir |
| Resident |
| Residual fecundity |
| Resilience |
| Resolution |
| Resorption of ova |
| Resource partitioning |
| Respiration |
| Respiratory |
| Response to selection |
| Restocking |
| Restoration |
| Retailles |
| Rete mirabile |
| Retention |
| Retention curve |
| Reticulate |
| Reticulated |
| Reticulation |
| Reticulations |
| Retina |
| Retinal pigment layer |
| Retro- |
| Retrograde |
| Retroperitoneal space |
| Retrorse |
| Reverberation |
| Reversal |
| Reversibility |
| Reynold's number |
| Rheo- |
| Rheokinesis |
| Rheophile |
| Rheophilic |
| Rheophilous |
| Rheophobus |
| Rheoreceptor |
| Rheotaxis |
| Rhipidion |
| Rhipidocercal |
| Rhithron |
| Rhizobenthos |
| Rhizopoda |
| Rhodophyta |
| Rhombencephalon |
| Rhomboid |
| Rhomboidal |
| Rhombomere |
| Rhyacium |
| Rhyacophilous |
| Rhynchichthys |
| Rib |
| Ribbonfishes |
| Ricefishes |
| Richness |
| Rictus |
| Ridge |
| Riffle |
| Rift |
| Rigg |
| Right bank |
| Righteye flounders |
| Rill |
| Ring net |
| Ring trawl |
| Ring valve |
| Rings |
| Rio de La Plata |
| Riparian |
| Ripe fish |
| Ripening |
| Rise |
| Risk |
| Rival |
| River |
| River basin |
| River stingrays |
| Riverain |
| Riverine |
| Riving |
| Rivulated |
| Rivulet |
| Rivulines |
| Roanoke College, Virginia |
| Robust |
| Robustness |
| Rock-hopper trawl |
| Rocker bone |
| Rod |
| Rode kaviaar |
| Roe |
| Roe-off |
| Roll line |
| Rolled fish |
| Rollmops |
| Rolmops |
| Ronquils |
| Roosterfishes |
| Root |
| Root coating |
| Root effect |
| Root lobe |
| Rooting |
| Rootwad |
| Rosary ponds |
| Roseate |
| Rosette |
| Rostral |
| Rostral cartilage |
| Rostral fold |
| Rostral keel |
| Rostral node |
| Rostral spine |
| Rostral teeth |
| Rostromandibular muscle |
| Rostronuchal muscles |
| Rostrum |
| Rotational fishery |
| Rotenone |
| Roter Kaviar |
| Rotskjaer |
| Rouelles |
| Rough fish |
| Round fish |
| Round rays |
| Round weight |
| Rounded |
| Rounder |
| Roundheads |
| Roused fish |
| Routine metabolism |
| Rovers |
| Row |
| Royal British Columbia Museum, British Columbia |
| Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto |
| Rubric |
| Rudiment |
| Rudimentary |
| Rudimentary ray |
| Rugae |
| Rugose |
| Run |
| Runnel |
| Runner |
| Running ripe |
| Runoff |
| Russische Sardinen |
| Rusting |
| Rysk kaviar |
| Røkt hyse |