Mesocoracoid - C

C

• Caniniform: shaped like a canine tooth, conical in form
• Carapace: a horny or bony covering encasing the body
• Cardiform: small set conical outgrowths in a close set patch or band; usually refers to a band of close set small conical teeth
• Carinate: keeled, having a ridge along the middle line
• Caruncle: a fleshy outgrowth
• Caudal: pertaining to the tail
• Caudal fin: the tail fin
• Caudal peduncle: the region of the body between the end of the anal fin and the base of the caudal fin
• Ciliated: fringed with eyelash-like projections
• Cirri: small, thin appendages, often subdivided into branches.
• Cirrus: singular of cirri (see above)
• Claspers: the external reproductive organs of male sharks, rays and chimaeras
• Coalesced: grown together
• Compressed: flattened laterally
• Confluent: joined together
• Conical: cone shaped, with a cylindrical base and a pointed tip
• Corselet: a scaly covering behind the pectorals of some fishes
• Countershading: body colouration which is dark above and lighter below
• Crenulate: having the edge slightly scalloped
• Cutaneous: pertaining to the skin
• Ctenoid scale: rough-edged scale
• Cycloid scale: smooth-edged scale