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collared kingfisher 399 Cookie Cutter Shark 326 crab cont. currents cont. Cymbula compressa 148
Colombian Basin 441 Coorong Lagoon 121 edible 300 Atlantic Ocean 428 Cyphoma gibbosum 285
Colombian Trench 478 Copacabana Beach 108 ghost 301 Benguela Current 59, 98, Cypraea tigris 285
Colón Ridge 457, 478 copepod, cyclopoid 294 hermit 134, 267 148, 428, 442, 443 Cyprus Basin 439
colonial sea squirt 319 copepods 170 reef 297 boundary 59
colonies, invertebrate 256 copper shark 213 horseshoe 290, 293 Brazil Current 59, 428, 442,
Colossendeis australis 293 Cora Diva Bank 449 Hydrothermal Vent 189 444
color change, cuttlefish 277 coral Japanese spider 297 California Current 58, 59, D
color, sea 36, 37 blue ridge 160 long-legged spider 300 66, 457
Colpomenia peregrina 238 bushy black 270 nodose box 297 Circumpolar Current 46 D‘Entrecasteax Islands 472
Colpophyllia natans 269 carnation 265 orange fiddler 301 creation 45 Dacia Seamount 437
Columbia Bay 112 daisy 268 pea 217, 300 cold 66 Dahlak Archipelago 448
Columbia, Cape 425 dendrophyllid 269 porcelain 291, 297, 298–299 East Greenland Current 59, daisy coral 268
Colville Ridge 481 devonshire cup 269 red, migration 302, 303 425, 427, 430 Daito Ridge 464, 466
Colvocoresses Reef 449 fast-pulse 265 robber 158, 297 Equatorial Countercurrent Dallas Reef 465
comb jelly giant brain 269 sand bubbler 290 442, 446, 447, 451, 473, Dalmatia 438
creeping 317 hump 268 spotted reef 300 477 Damar, Kepulauan 472
predatory 317 lophelia 178, 179, 269 velvet 292 Equatorial Undercurrent Dampier Seamount 443
comets, as source of water 43 Mediterranean red 266 crabeater seal 405 442, 473 damsel fish see sergeant major
commensalism 217, 292 jewelry 260 Crary Bank 485 Falklands Current 444 Dana Fracture Zone 479
sea-star shrimp 308 mushroom 269 Creagrus furcatus 396 Guiana Current 428, 442 Danish Straits 432
Committee Bay 424, 426 mushroom leather 264 creeping comb jelly 317 Gulf Stream 31, 66, 428, Danube Cone 439
Commodore Reef 465 organ pipe 264 crested auklet 399 431, 440 Danube delta 439
common black-hawk 133 table 268 Cretaceous Atlantic Conveyor 63 Danzig, Gulf of 433
common blackdevil 351 whip 270 ocean life 228 map by Benjamin Franklin Dao 465
common bluestripe snapper 359 coral reefs 138–39, 152–55 plate tectonics 45 59 Dao Phu 465
common bottlenose dolphin 123, biodiversity 154–55 Cretan Trough 439 heat transfer 31, 58, 66 Dardanelles 439
414 destruction 155, 160, 179 Crete 439 Humboldt Current 376, Dardanus megistos 297
common brittlestar 309 zones 154–55 Crete, Sea of 439 456, 457, 478, 479 Darien mangroves 135
common diving petrel 389 Coral Sea 422, 456, 473, 480 Crimea Escarpment 439 Indian Ocean 447, 451 Darien, Gulf of 441
common dolphin 26–27, 414 Coral Sea Basin 456, 472 Crimean Peninsula 439 interaction 59 dark zone 168, 171, 219
common edible cockle 281 Coral Sea Islands 472, 480 crinoids, fossil 311 Jan Mayen Current 427 Darnley, Cape 483
common eider 381 coral shrimp, banded 217 crocodile Kuroshio Current 58, 59, Darwin Mounds 179
eiderdown 381 coral weed 245 American 132, 133, 377 66, 456, 457, 459, 460, Darwin, Charles (1809–82) 294,
common fangtooth 353 Coral Triangle 211 Cuban 133 464, 467 444
common glasswort 250, 251 coralline sponge 259 estuarine 135, 377 Labrador Current 59, 116, Dasyatis americana 334–335
common jellyfish, larva 214 Corallium rubrum 260, 266 Indo-Pacific 377 195, 426, 431 Davidson Bank 458
common limpet 284 corals Morelet’s 132 Liman Current 150 Davie Ridge 446, 454
common lobster 297 bleaching 153, 158, 159, 160, Nile 134 Malvinas current 59 Davis Coast 444
common loon 386 161 saltwater 136–37, 369, 377 Mesozoic 46 Davis Sea 483
common murre 14, 378–79, 398 effect of El Niño 68 crocodiles 368–69 North Atlantic Drift 59, 66, Davis Seamounts 429
common mussel 280 cold-water 153, 179 Crocodylus acutus 377 427, 428, 430, 431, 432 Davis Strait 423, 426, 429
common periwinkle 285 hurricane damage 71 Crocodylus porosus 136–37, 377 Atlantic Conveyor 63 Dawhat Sawqirah 449
common piddock 281 reef-building 260–61 crocus, sand 242 North Equatorial Current De Soto Canyon 440
common prawn 296 anatomy 260 crofter’s wig 239 428, 440, 446, 447, dead man’s fingers 216, 264
common seafan 265 stony 153, 158 crown of thorns starfish 158, 161, 456 Dead Sea 439
common sea lavender 252 warm-water 153 307, 309 Norwegian Atlantic Current Dead Sea, salinity 35
common sea squirt 318 cordgrass Crozet Basin 422, 446 425, 432 Dean Island 485
common seal 404 saltmeadow 126 Crozet Islands 446, 482 Oyashio Current 59, 457, Deccan Traps 455
common shelduck 381 smooth 124, 126, 127 Crozet Plateau 446 460 decompression, divers 35
common shore crab 300 Cordilleran Ice Sheet 46 Cruiser Tablemount 436 Pacific Ocean 456, 457 Deep Flight submersibles 173
larva 214 core, Earth 40–41 crust Peruvian Current 66, 344, Deep Rover submersible 223
common skate 333 Corfu 439 Earth 457 deep sea red prawn 296
common sole 366 Coriolis effect 54 continental 41, 42, 44 South Equatorial Current deep-sea angler 225, 350
common squid 289 water 58 oceanic 41, 42, 44, 48 442, 446, 447, 451, 455, deep-sea cucumber 312
common stargazer 364 wind 55, 70 crustaceans 292 456, 473, 477, 479 deep-sea habitat 222–223
common tern 128 cormorant Cruz, Cabo 441 Southern Ocean 482 food 223
Comoro Basin 446, 454 great 393 Cryptocentrus cinctus 364 surface 58–59, 66 pressure 222
Comoros 446, 455 guanay 380, 392 Cryptoclidus eurymerus 228 Transpolar Current 200, see also abyssal plain; abyssal
compensation depth, calcium Cornish kelp forest 148 ctenidia 277 201, 424, 425 zone; dark zone
carbonate 181 cornish sucker 352 Ctenophora 317 Tsushima Current 150, 464 deep-sea jellyfish 262
Conception Bank 437 Cornwallis Island 424, 426 Cuban crocodiles 133 warm 66 deep-sea sediment 180, 182, 223
concretions, mineral, Moeraki Coronation Gulf 424, 426 Cuban gar 133 rip 110 Deepflight Super Falcon
Beach 112 Corryvreckan Whirlpool 81 Cuban hutia 133 subsurface 60 submersible 173
Condylactis gigantea 266 Corsica 438 cuckoo wrasse 361 tidal 79 Deepsea Challenger submersible
Conger conger 342 Corvo 436 reproduction 338 turbidity 176 173
conger eel 342 Corynactis viridis 267 cucumber cushion star 308 defenses, coastal 105
Congo Fan 429, 443 Coryphaena hippurus 360 deep-sea 312 cusk-eel, spotted 349 Del Cano Rise 446
Congo River 443 Coryphaenoides acrolepis 349 edible sea 312 cuskeel 183 Delaware Bay 431
Congo River estuary 114 Coscinodiscus granii 235 sea 144, 181, 223, 312 cuttlefish Delgada Fan 469
Constantine, Cape 459 Cosmoledo Group 454 Culcita novaeguineae 308 Australian giant 289 Delgado, Cabo 446, 454
consumers 212 Costa Blanca 438 Cumberland Peninsula 426 eggs 279 Delphinapterus leucas 413
continental crust 42 Costa Brava 438 Cumberland Sound 426 color change 277 Delphinus delphis 414
continental drift 44–45 Costa del Sol 438 Curaçao 441 Cuvier Basin 447, 451 Deltaworks, Netherlands, storm-
continental rise 177 Costa Verde 437 Curonian Lagoon 119 Cuvier Plateau 447, 451 surge barriers 105
continental shelf 140–41 Côte d’Azur 438 Curonian Spit 119 Cuvier’s beaked whale 413 Demerara Plain 423, 429
geology 141 Cotton’s seaweed 245 currents cyanobacteria 226, 232, 233, Dendronephthya species 265
continental slope 176 Couch’s goby 148 ocean 45 255 Dendrophyllia species 269
convection cells, mantle 41, 42, Coulman Island 485 Aghulas Current 446, 447, Cyclades 439 dendrophyllid coral 269
44, 48 Courland Lagoon 433 455 Cycliophoran 316 Denmark Strait 423, 425, 429,
convergent plate boundary 48 cow shark 323 Alaska Current 457, 459 cyclones 52–53, 55, 70–71 430
conveyor cowrie, tiger 285 Aleutian Current 459 East China Sea 464 Denmark Strait 430
global ocean 61, 62–63, 430 Cox’s Bazar Beach 111 Antarctic Circumpolar Haiyan 72–73 density, seawater 35
see also Atlantic Conveyor Cozumel, Isla 440 Current 195, 201, 428, Timor Sea 451 Denson Seamount 459
Cook Inlet 459 crab 444, 456, 482 and upwelling 60 deposition, coasts 93
Cook Islands 477 blue swimming 301 Antarctic Coastal Current see also hurricanes depression see cyclones
Cook Strait 481 chirostylus 179 201 cyclopoid copepod 294 depth
Cook Strait, currents 79 common shore 300 Arctic Ocean 425 Cyclopterus lumpus 358 oceans 169
Cook, Captain James (1728–79) larva 214 Atlantic Conveyor 61, Cyclozodion angustum 297 satellite estimates 187
123, 445, 477 dungeness 123 62–63, 430 Cyerce nigricans 286 Dermochelys coriacea 113, 371