Invertebrate Zoology II

THEORY      (Credits 4)

Unit 1: Introduction to Coelomates 2

Evolution of coelom and metamerism

Unit 2: Annelida 10

General characteristics and Classification up to classes

Excretion in Annelida

Unit 3: Arthropoda 17

General characteristics and Classification up to classes

Vision and Respiration in Arthropoda

Metamorphosis in Insects

Social life in bees and termites

Unit 4: Onychophora 4

General characteristics and Evolutionary significance

Unit 5: Mollusca

General characteristics and Classification up to classes

Respiration in Mollusca

Torsion and detorsion in Gastropoda

Pearl formation in bivalves

Evolutionary significance of trochophore larva

Unit 6: Echinodermata 12

General characteristics and Classification up to classes

Water-vascular system in Asteroidea

Larval forms in Echinodermata

Affinities with Chordates