ANIMAL DIVERSITY III

Paper Code: 
ZOL-301
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
11.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I

Protochordates:-

  • Classification upto orders
  • *Salient features:

           Balanoglossus: Tornaria larva

           Ascidia: Retrogressive metamorphosis
 

           Amphioxus

9.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

Agnatha:-

  • Classification upto orders
  • Salient features:

     Petromyzon
 

     Ammocoete larva

7.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III

Gnathostomata

  • Classification upto orders
  • Ostracoderms( a brief description)
  • Salient features:

            Scoliodon

  • Difference between Osteichthyes & Chondrichthyes
  • Dipnoi
  • Adaptive radiation in Fishes
 

Economic importance of Fishes

10.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

Amphibia

  • Classification upto orders
  • Neoteny
  • Adaptive radiation in Amphibia

Reptilia

  • Classification upto order
  • Difference between snake, lizard, crocodile, alligator, turtle and tortoise
 

Poisonous & Non-poisonous snakes

Poison apparatus

8.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V

Aves

  • Classification upto orders
  • Feather and its Development
  • Flight adaptation
  • Perching mechanism

Mammals

  • Classification upto orders
  • Dentition in mammals
 

Hair and its development

Essential Readings: 
  • Colbert’s evolution of the vertebrates; Colbert, E.H; John Wiley & Sons
  • Young, J.Z.: The Life of Vertebrates. III Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 
  • Pough H. Vertebrate life, VIII Edition, Pearson International
  • Barrington,E.J.W.: The Biology Hemichordata & Protochordata Oliver & Boyd,London,1965
  • Young,J.Z,: The life of vertebrates. Oxford University Press London 1962(Low Priced Text Reprint English Language Book Socieety London,1962).
  • Young J. Z : The life of mammals Oxford University Press London 1963
  • Romer, S. The vertebrate body. W.B. Saunders, London.
  • Jordon, E.L., Verma P.S. Chordate Zoology, S Chand and Co.
  • Text book of Chordate Zoology vol. II ; Sandhu, G.S. and Sandhu, G.S;    Campus Books.
  • Modern text book of Zoology-Vertebrates; Kotpal, Rastogi Publication.
  • Vertebrate Zoology; Rastogi, V.B.; Ramnath & Kedarnath.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017
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