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Glossary term starting with S

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Saba hiraki boshi

Sabertooth fishes

safe biological limit

Salamanderfishes

Salt cured fish

salt round fish

saltatrix swimming

San Diego State University Fish Collection, California

San Francisco State University Vertebrate Museum, California

San Jose State University, California

Sand stargazers

Sandfishes or sand gobies

Sandy Hook Marine Laboratory, Northeast Fisheries Center, New Jersey

satellite species

Savustettu rasvasilli

scale count above and below the lateral line

Scaleless black dragonfishes

scales above and below lateral line

Scaly dragonfishes

scapulo-coracoid

Schellfisch Suppe

Schelvis hutspot in blik

Schilbid catfishes

School of Oceanography

scientific cruise

scientific name

scleral cartilage

sclerotic bones

scombrotoxic fishes

Scoophead sharks

Scorpionfishes or rockfishes

Scotch cured herring

Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla

Sea basses: groupers and fairy basslets

seasonal astatic

seasonal closure

secondary division

secondary female

secondary freshwater fishes

secondary gonochorism

secondary homonym

secondary production

secondary scale

secondary scales

sediment shoreline

selective breeding

selective fishery

self-sustaining population

semi-intensive culture

semicircular ear canal

seminal vesicle

senescent fishery

senescent period

separation from the group

sequential hermaphrodite

serial spawning

serous membrane

Seto Naikai or Inland Sea

settled species

settlement stage

Sevastopol Experimental Design Bureu for Underwater Investigation

sexual behaviour

sexual dichotomy

sexual dichromatism

sexual dimorphism

sexual parasite

sexual selection

shallow epipelagic

shallow lagoon floor

Shanghai Fisheries University

Shanghai Fisheries University, Shanghai, China

Shark catfishes

shattered packed

shelter brooder

Shortnose chimaeras or ratfishes

shoulder girdle

sibling species

Silver cured herring

simultaneous hermaphrodite

simultaneous hermaphroditism

Singapore Strait

single oviparity

single species model

Sisorid catfishes

size distribution

size frequency distribution

size-at-first-maturity

skeletal system

Skriggled codfish

Slana pasta od inçuna

Slovak National Museum, Czechoslovakia

small-scale fishery

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

smokeless smoking

Snake mackerels

Snipefishes and shrimpfishes

snout to vent length

sonic scattering

Sopa de eglefino

sound scattering layer

Soupe d'églefin

Soused pilchards

South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity

South African Museum, Cape Town

South Atlantic Bight

South Atlantic Ocean

South Australian Museum, Adelaide

South China Sea (Nan Nai)

South Pacific Ocean

Southeast Fisheries Center, Florida

Southeastern Louisiana, University Fish Museum, Louisiana

Southern Africa

Southern Arkansas University

Southern flounders

Southern sandfishes

spatial and temporal closures

spatial closure

spawner-recruit relationship

spawner-to-spawner ratio

spawning aggregation

spawning ascent

spawning biomass

spawning channel

spawning escapement

spawning fishery

spawning frequency

spawning ground

spawning migration

spawning spread

spawning stock biomass

spawning substrate

species aggregate

species diversity

species diversity index

species epithet

species inquirenda

species richness

species-group name

specific growth rate

sperm competition

spermatic crypt

spermatozeugmata

sphenopterotic ridge

Spice cured fish

spider web bait

spinescent gill rakers

Spiny dwarf catfishes

splanchnocranium

splayed claspers

Splendid perches

Split cure herring

sporadic fishes

sporadic freshwater fishes

spring overturn

square brackets

Squareheads or angler catfishes

squatinoid caudal fin

Squeakers or upside-down catfishes

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart

Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden

Staatliches Museum Wiesbaden

Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum

Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig

standard length

standard metabolism

stapedial foramen

stapediocarotid foramen

statement of a type locality

statistical variation

Statutary Fishing Rights

Stegt sild i marinade

Sticklebacks and tubesnouts

stochastic forces

stock assessment

stock enhancement

stock recruitment models

stock recruitment relationship

stock structure

stocking density

stomodeal denticles

straddling stock

Strait of Gibraltar

stratified sampling

stratum germinativum

streak spawning

Stream catfishes

stretched measure

structural diversity

structured design

Structured Query Language

stylophthalmoid

sub-tropical convergence zone

subbottom reflection

subethmoid fossa

subgeneric name

subjective synonym

submarine geomorphology

submarine valley

submerged earthform

submersible traveling screen

submissive behavior

subnasal fenestrae

suborbital depth

suborbital shelf

suborbital width

subordinate taxon

subsequent designation

subsequent monotypy

subsistance culture

subsistence fisheries

subsistence fishery

subspecies name

subspecific name

subterminal margin

subterminal mouth

subterminal notch

subtropical convergence

successional facilitation

successional inhibition

successional tolerance

Sugar cured fish

Summer cod-fish

Suolatu kuivattu kalanmäti

superfamily name

superficial ophthalmic nerve foramina

supplemental bone

supplementation

suppressed work

supra-orbital crests

supraoccipital crest

supraoccipital process

supraorbital canal

supraorbital crest

suprapreopercle

supratemporal canal

surplus production

surplus production model

suspension feeder

suspensory bone

sustainable catch

sustainable development

sustainable fishing

sustainable use

sustainable yield

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm

swinging sickness

swollen belly or ascites

symphyseal fangs

symphyseal knob

symphysial groove

symplesiomorphy

synchronous hermaphrodite

synchronous hermaphroditism

synchronous ovary

synchronous spawning

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