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Undergraduate Biology at Stony Brook
| - Majors & Tracks - Biology Courses - Student Research, Internships & Teaching Practica - Administrative Personnel - Departments & Faculty - Advising - BioNews Biology Home Page Undergraduate Biology Biology Learning Labs SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794-5110 631-632-8530 Fax 631-632-1347 | BIO 343 - Invertebrate Zoology Fall 2000 The course considers the natural history, comparative morphology and evolution of the multicellular invertebrates, (exclusive of arthropods, which need half of my spring course, Bio 346.). Feeding, defense, respiration, locomotion (or attachment), reproduction and modes of development are particularly emphasized. Stress is placed on major groups of benthic marine invertebrates, but we do consider some, planktonic fresh water and terrestrial animals. The course is excellent preparation for Bio 353, Marine Ecology and helpful for Mar 320, Limnology. Some groups are studied in detail, so we will examine upwards of twenty kinds of snails rather than a “representative” one or two examples. Students who have not done Bio 344 or 346, and who wish a broader overview, covering protozoans, arthropods and vertebrates, should consider switching to my Bio 340 Zoology. Sample Syllabus LECTURES Mollusks. Chitons Intro to gastropoda and prosobranch snails Snail shells-form and function Grazing and filtering prosobranch snails Predatory prosobranch snails Opisthobranchs - sea slugs and allies Bivalves – burrowing and boring clams Bivalve feeding/nutrition Bivalve diversity – primitive and advanced clams Epifaunal bivalves – Mussels, oysters, scallops Salt water/fresh water and water/land transitions in snails Minor Molluscan classes Molluscan Development LABS Chitons. Start prosobranch snails Prosobranchs concl. Opisthobranchs Pulmonates, basics of bivalves Bivalve diversity. Minor Molluscan classes EXAM ON UNIT ONE Part II – Mollusks, Worms, Sponges and Lophophorates LECTURES Squid form and function Cephalopod diversity and Evolution Nautilus. Ribbon worms Sack-like worms: Priapulans, innkeepers and allies, peanut worms Intro to Annelids and to polychaete worms Errant and deposit feeding polychaetes Filtering and tentaculate polychaetes Earthworms and allies Leeches and Beardworms Functional Morphology of Sponges Sponge diversity and evolution leeches Lophophorates – Phoronids and lamp shells Bryozoans Roundworms and selected allies, gnathostomulans LABS Cephalopods, Ribbon worms Higher worms I Higher worms II Sponges, lophophorates, roundworms Exam on Unit II PART III Coelenterates, Echnioderms, lower worms LECTURE Colonies Introduction to coelenterates Hydrozoans, start – Hydra, hydroids and allies Siphonophores (Man O War and allies); Scyphozoan jellyfish Anthozoa – introduction. Octocorals – sea whips, etc. Anemones True corals, monor anthozoa. Comb jellies Introduction to Echinoderms – starfish and allies Feather stars. True starfish True and brittle stars Sea urchins Irregular echinoids sand dollars and allies. Fossil echinoderms Sea cucumbers. Arrow worms Selected flatworms Flatworms and Mesozoans LABS Coelenterates Coelenterates, comb jellies Echinoderms Echinoderms, selected flatworms |
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