T
- Teleost: a member of Teleostei, an infraclass containing most of the bony fishes
- Terminal: at the end
- Tessellated: marked with little checks or squares, like tiles
- Thoracic: pertaining to the chest
- Thorax: the chest region, just behind the head
- Total length: the length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the tail
- Transverse: crosswise
- Trilobate: with three lobes
- Tricuspid: with three cusps or points
- Truncate: terminating abruptly, as if cut off square
- Trunk: the region of a fish between the head and tail, or the last gill slit and vent
- Tubercle: a small, usually hard excrescence or lump
- Tubiform, tubuliform: resembling a tube
- Type locality: the location from which the type specimen was collected.
Read more about this topic: Mesocoracoid