ANIMAL DIVERSITY III

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

Protochordates:-

  • Classification upto orders
  • *Salient features:

           Balanoglossus: Tornaria larva

           Ascidia: Retrogressive metamorphosis
 

           Amphioxus

9.00

Agnatha:-

  • Classification upto orders
  • Salient features:

     Petromyzon
 

     Ammocoete larva

7.00



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

Amphibia

  • Classification upto orders
  • Neoteny
  • Adaptive radiation in Amphibia

Reptilia

  • Classification upto orders
  • Poisonous & Non-poisonous snakes
 

Poison apparatus

8.00



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
  • 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.
  • Young, O.Z.: The Life of Vertebrates, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 
  • Young,J.Z,: The life of vertebrates. Oxford University Press London 1962(Low Priced Text Reprint English Language Book Socieety London,1962).
  • Barrington,E.J.W.: The Biology Hemichordata & Protochordata Oliver & Boyd,London,1965

Young J. Z : The life of mammals Oxford University Press London 1963
 

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