Animal Diversity III

Paper Code: 
ZOL-212
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
9.00

Salient features & classification of the Invertebrates upto Class level

(Type study- Habit, Habitat & Salient features)

Phylum Annelida

  • Type study:  Earthworm
  • Metamerism

Vermiculture     

12.00

Phylum Arthropoda

  • Type study: Prawn
  • Social life in Insects
  • Metamorphosis
  • Sericulture
  • Lac culture
  • Apiculture

Prawn culture

9.00

Phylum Mollusca

  • Type study: Pila
  • Respiration
  • Torsion

Pearl culture

6.00

Phylum Echinodermata

  • Type study: Starfish (External morphology,Locomotion,Reproduction,

Water vascular system

9.00

Larval forms of Invertebrates (Planula, Miracidium, Sporocyst, Redia, Cercaria, Metacercaria, Cysticercous, Nauplius, Zoeae, Megalopa, Mysis, Trochophore, Glochidium, Brachiolaria, Bipinnaria)

Significance of larval forms

Essential Readings: 
  • Invertebrate Zoology; Barns, R. D; W. B. Saunders Co.
  • Textbook of Zoology; Shivapuri, Jacob, D. and Vyas, D.K.; Ramesh Book Depot.
  • Text book of Invertebrate Zoology I; Sandhu, G.S and Bhaskar, H; Campus Books.
  • Modern textbook of Zoology-Invertebrates; Kotpal; Rastogi Publications. Invertebrate Diversity of Life: Rounds H. General Zoology: Storer, T.I. and Using, K.L.: Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co., New Delhi.
  • D. Reinhold, New York (Indian repring : Affiliated East West Press, New Delhi.)
  • The invertebrates. Vol.1. Protozoa through Ctenophora, Hyman, L.H. McGraw Hill Co., New York.
  • Student Text Book of Zoology. Vol.I.II and III. Sedgwick.A.
  • Text book of Zoology. Parker, T.J., Haswell. W.A.Macmillan Co., London.
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