THE DIVERSITY OF FISHES: BIOSM 377/ZOOL 734
dates: To be offered in 2009 or 2010
credit hours: 6 semester credits
total cost: $tbd (includes room, board and tuition)
An intensive lecture, laboratory, and field course. Field and laboratory work is extensive and an independent paper on the anatomy and osteology of a local species of teleost is required. Lectures cover the basic anatomy and physiology of fishes with examples drawn from a wide variety of fishes from throughout the world. The course emphasizes the diversity of fishes in two aspects, diversity of evolutionary solutions to problems faced by fishes and the great diversity of different types of fishes that inhabit the world. Laboratory exercises cover the anatomy and osteology of teleost fishes and identification of local species. Field work is designed to demonstrate some of the many ways that fishes are collected and to provide material for identification in the laboratory. Each student selects a different local species of teleost fish to study and dissect and prepares a comprehensive paper on its morphology, soft anatomy, and osteology.
Faculty:
Bruce Collette, National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory AND
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