| 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 |
| Cut spiced herring |
| Cut-tail |
| cutaneous |
| Cutlassfishes |
| Cutlet |
| Cutthroat eels |
| cutting edge |
| cuttlefish |
| Cyanobacteria |
| cyclic succession |
| cyclo-ctenoid scale |
| cycloid |
| cyclomorphosis |
| cyclostome poisoning |
| cyprinin |
| cyst |
| cysteine |
| cystozygote |
| cytogenetics |
| cytopathic |
| cytopathology |
| cytoplasm |
| cytoplasmic DNA |
