Niesen/BIOLOGY 555.

 

Fall 1999 Course Schedule

 

MARINE INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY

 

Date Topic Reading Assignments

August Ruppert & Barnes /Nybakken

25 Introduction, Video: Building Bodies Chap. 1 xii-xvi, Chap 1

27 Origin of the Metazoa Chap. 20

September

1 Porifera Chap. 3 Chap 2

3 Cnidaria: Hydrozoa Chap. 4; pp 103-127 Chap 4, 27-46 Tape: Gelatinous Marine Zooplankton

8 Cnidaria/ Scyphozoa; Anthozoa Chap. 4 ; pp 127-157 Chap 4, 46-68

10 Field: Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, 0630; +0.1 tide @0518

 

NOTEBOOKS DUE

15 Cnidaria: Scleractinia; coral reefs; Chap. 4; pp 157-172 Chap 4, 60-71

Ctenophora

QUIZ #1

17 Introduction to Bilateral Animals Chap. 5

22 Plathyhelminthes: Turbellaria Chap. 6; pp 203-240 Chap 5, 72-78

24 Nemertea Chap. 7 Chap 6

Nematoda Chap. 8; pp 277-281; Chap 7, 107-10, 287-304

29 First Midterm

October

1 Annelida: Polychaeta Chap. 11; pp 499-554 Chap 8, 118-25

6 Annelida: Polychaeta II Chap. 11; pp 499-554 Chap 8, 118-25

8 Field: Richardson Bay 0700; +0.6 tide @ 0600

13 Other Protostomes Chap. 9; pp 336-360, Chap 10 581-586

15 Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia Chap. 10; pp 361-372; Chap 9, 144-63, 379-423

20 Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia Chap. 10; pp 379-423 Chap 9, 163-71

 

QUIZ #2

22 Mollusca: Bivalvia & Polyplacophora Chap. 10; pp 372-379;423-461 173-82 Chap 9, 140-44

*** 23 Class Cruise, R.V. Point Sur, Moss Landing ~all day

27 Mollusca: Scaphopoda; Cephalopoda; Chap. 10; pp 461-486 Chap 9, 183-91

29 Annelid/Mollusc Review

 

November Ruppert & Barnes Nybakken

3 Second Midterm

5 Arthropod: Crustacea: Chap. 12; Chap 11,

Ostracoda; Copepoda; Chap. 14; pp 679-690; 211-228

Cirripedia pp. 751-779

 

NOTEBOOKS DUE

10 Crustacea: Stomatopoda; Chap. 14; pp 729-751 Chap 11,

Peracarida; Leptrostraca 228-240

12 Crustacea: Eucarida: Chap. 14; pp 690-729 Chap 11,

Euphausiacea; Decapoda: 241-249, Natantia (shrimp); Anomura

17 Crustacea: Decapoda: Reptantia Chap. 14; pp 690-729; Chap 11,

(Anomura & Brachyura) 779-787 249-251;

Molting Chap 12; pp. 600-605

 

QUIZ #3

19 Lophophorate Phyla Chap. 19 Chap 14

 

NOTEBOOKS DUE

24 Echinodermata: Asteroidea; Chap. 18; pp. 920-950; Chap 13,

Ophiuroidea 983-991 268-279

25-28 Thanksgiving Recess

December

1 Advising Day/ no classes scheduled

3 Echinodermata: Crinoidea; Chap. 18; pp. 950-983 Chap 13,

Echinoidea; Holothuroidea 279-288

8 Protochordata: Urochordata Chap. 17; 863-900 Chap 14

NOTEBOOKS DUE//

10 Review

QUIZ #4

13 MONDAY/Final Exam 0800

 

OFFICE/ PHONE/ EMAIL/ OFFICE HOURS

Tom Niesen Office HH 214; Phone 415-338-6387

email: tniesen@sfsu.edu Wednesday 12:30-2:30 / Thursday 11-12

 

Michelle Chow Office HH 229 Phone 415-338-1644

email: mmchow@ucdavis.edu Wednesday 12:30-2:30

 

Course Texts:

Ruppert, E.A. & Barnes, R.D. 1994. Invertebrate Zoology. 6th edition.

Saunders College, Philadelphia. ix + 893 pp.

Nybakken, J.W. 1996. Diversity of the invertebrates: a laboratory manual: Pacific Coast version. Wm. C. Brown Publishers, Dubuque. 311 pp.

Ruppert & Barnes will be the main reference source used in the lecture. Reading assignments are to be read before the lecture and will constitute the subject material for the indicated quizzes. Nybakken’s Diversity of the invertebrates is new and will be used as our laboratory guide; the appropriate chapters are assigned with each phylum and are to be read in advance of the laboratory session. Other sources for lab illustrations and guides can be used according to individual preference.