Molluscan Success
Week: 9
Molluscan Success:
relationships to other animals; origin of the coelom; molluscan characteristics; classification up to class. The characteristics of shell and associated structures, feeding, digestion, gas exchange, locomotion, reproduction and development, other maintenance functions and diversity in gastropods
Miller & harley, 2016 (pp.197-204)
Miller & harley, 2002 (pp.173-179)
Course Material
- Introduction:Architectural pattern of an animal, taxonomy and phylogeny, major subdivisions of animal kingdom with evolutionary perspective.
- Animal-Like Protists
- Multicellular and Tissue Levels of Organization:
- Triploblastics and Acoelomate Body Plan:
- Phylum Nemertea; Phylum Gastrotricha; further phylogenetic considerations.
- Pseudocoelomate Body Plan
- Phylum Rotifera and Phylum Kinoryncha
- Phylum Nematoda
- Molluscan Success
- Class bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scapophora, Monoplacophora:
- class cephalopods, Aplacophora, Caudofoveata
- Phylum Annelida
- Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Trilobitomorpha
- Subphylum Chelicerata and Crustacea
- Phylum Echinodermata
- Class Holothroidea, Class Crinoidea and Class Concentricycloidea
- Final Exams
- Chapters 17
- Department Chemistry
- Teacher
Saira Siddique
