Fishkeeping glossary
The vocabulary of the average fish expert probably includes hundreds of words you've never heard of before. To help you understand it all we've made this nifty glossary so you can swot up on the terminology.- Saddle
- SAE
- Salinity
- Salt creep
- Saprophyte
- Scales
- School
- Scientific name
- Scute
- Scyphozoans
- Secchi disc
- Setae
- Sexual dimorphism
- Shoal
- Siphon canal
- Siphonozoid
- Solitary
- sp.
- Sparge
- Spawning
- Spawning mop
- Spawning tile
- Speciation
- Species
- Specific Gravity
- Spicules
- Splitting
- spp.
- Standard length
- Stenothermal
- Sterlets
- Stocking density
- Stolon
- Substrate
- Sweeper tentacle
- Swim bladder
- Symbiosis
- Synapomorphic
- Synapomorphy
- Syntopic
- Syntype
