Animal Diversity II

Paper Code: 
ZOL 201
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
Course Objectives: 
 
This course will enable the students to 
1. Develop an understanding of animals from Annelida to Echinoderms and their general  characteristics. 
2. Assemble knowledge about the different animal life cycles stages and forms of reproduction.
3. Acquire basic skills and key concepts about the process and use of pearl culture.
4. Relate the origin and evolutionary relationship of different larval forms from Annelida to Echinodermata. 
 
 
 

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and

teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper

Code

Paper

Title

ZOL 

201

Animal

Diversity

II

The students will be able to –

CO15: Compare and 

contrast the 

characteristics of animals from Annelida to

Echinodermata.

CO16: Investigate stages of  animal lifecycles and their  forms of reproduction.

CO17: Evaluate the

process and use of pearl

culture.

CO18: Examine the origin  and evolutionary relationship of different larval forms from Annelida to Echinodermata.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive class lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration,

Open book test

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning

assignments,

Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar

presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

Semester end examinations

Class test

Quiz

Solving

problems in

tutorials

Assignments Presentation
 
 
9.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
 
General characters and Classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level for each Phylum
 
Salient feature of the Type Study i.e. Habit, Habitat and External morphology 
 
● Type study: Earthworm (Locomotion, Excretion and Reproduction) 
● Metamerism 
● Vermiculture 
 
12.00
Unit II: 
Unit-II
Phylum Arthropoda 
 
● Type study: Prawn (Appendages, Digestion) 
● Social life in Insects (termites, honey bees) 
● Metamorphosis 
● Sericulture 
● Lac culture 
● Apiculture 
 
9.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
Phylum Mollusca 
 
● Type study: Pila 
● Respiration 
● Digestion 
● Torsion 
● Pearl culture 
 
6.00
Unit IV: 
IV
Phylum Echinodermata 
 
● Type study: Starfish (Locomotion, Reproduction) 
● Water vascular system 
9.00
Unit V: 
Unit V
Larval forms of Invertebrates 
 
● Planula, Miracidium, Sporocyst, Redia, Cercaria, Metacercaria, Cysticercus, Nauplius,  Zoeae, Megalopa, Mysis, Trochophore, Glochidium, Brachiolaria, Bipinnaria
 
Essential Readings: 
ESSENTIAL READINGS:
● Text book of Zoology. Parker, T.J., Haswell. W.A. Macmillan Co., London. 
● Textbook of Zoology; Shivpuri, Jacob, D. and Vyas. D.K.; Ramesh Book Depot. 
● Modern Textbook of Zoology Invertebrates; Kotpal; Rastogi Publications. 
● Dhami P.S. and Dhami J.K. Invertebrate Zoology, S Chand and Co.
 
SUGGESTED READINGS:
● Hickman, C.P., LS Roberts,and A. Larson.McGraw Hill Company, New York. Integrated  principles of zoology. 
● Ruppert and Barnes, R.D. (2006). Invertebrate Zoology, VIII Edition. Holt Saunders  International Edition. 
● Barnes, R.S.K., Calow, P., Olive, P.j.W., Golding, D.W. and Spicer, J.I. (2002). The  Invertebrate: A New Synthesis, III Edition, Blackwell Science. 
● Barrington. E.J.W. Invertebrate form and function. PHI New Delhi
 
e-RESOURCES:
e-PGPATHSHALA-INFLIBNET CENTRE-
 
Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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