As an adipokine, coiled‐coil domain‐containing 3 (CCDC3) plays multiple physiological functions in fatty liver, lipid metabolism, and abdominal obesity. Grass carp was selected as the experimental animal in this study to investigate the roles of Ccdc3 in teleost. Results showed that the open reading frame (ORF) of cloned ccdc3 was 831 bp and encoded 276 amino acids. Three N‐glycosylation sites and a predicted coiled‐coil domain motif were located in the identified Ccdc3. Moreover, a nuclear localization signal (NLS) was contained in the coiled‐coil domain motif of the identified Ccdc3. The results on tissue distribution revealed that ccdc3 was highly detected in grass carp fat and brain tissue. In the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), the expression of ccdc3 increased dramatically in the brain, hypothalamus, and visceral fat in the glucose treatment group. In the fasting and refeeding experiment, the ccdc3 expression levels were dramatically reduced in the brain, hypothalamus, and visceral fat after 14 days of fasting. In the refeeding group, the ccdc3 expression levels were considerably promoted compared with those in the fasting group. In the induced overfeeding experiment, the ccdc3 expression increased remarkably in the hepatopancreas, brain and visceral fat tissues. The ccdc3 expression in the primary hepatocytes were dramatically increased with glucose, oleic acid, and insulin treatment. However, ccdc3 expression were markedly decreased with glucagon treatment. In conclusion, these results indicates that Ccdc3 takes part in regulating glucose and lipid metabolism of teleost.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.