Lecture Notes on Invertebrate Zoology

Content Module 1. Introduction. Main Invertebrate Phyla: Sarcomastigophora, Apicomplexa, Microsporidia, Microsporidia

Lecture Topic 1. Subject matter of zoology. Similarities and differences between plants and animals. General characteristics of protozoan invertebrates

Lecture Topic 2. Characteristics of Sporozoa. Structural adaptations resulting from parasitism

Lecture Topic 3. Ciliates: the highest phylum of unicellular organisms

Content Module 2. Origin of Metazoa and Their Phyla: Flatworms, Roundworms, Annelids

Lecture Topic 4. Multicellular invertebrates (Metazoa). Characteristics of the phylum Porifera as primary multicellular animals

Lecture Topic 5. Structural features of the phylum Cnidaria

Lecture Topic 6. The phylum Ctenophora

Lecture Topic 7. Triploblastic animals. Flatworms

Lecture Topic 8. Characteristics of the phylum Nematoda (roundworms or pseudocoelomates)

Lecture Topic 9. The phylum Annelida as the highest worm phylum

Content Module 3. Crustaceans. Tracheates. Insect Systematics and the Phylum Chelicerata

Lecture Topic 10. General characteristics of the phylum Arthropoda. Crustaceans. Structural organization of lower crustaceans

Lecture Topic 11. Crustaceans. Structural organization of higher crustaceans

Lecture Topic 12. Subphylum Chelicerata: the first terrestrial arthropods

Lecture Topic 13. Subphylum Tracheata: the most diverse taxonomic group

Lecture Topic 14. Characteristics of major insect orders

Content Module 4. Phylum Mollusca and Phylum Echinodermata

Lecture Topic 15. General characteristics of the phylum Mollusca

Lecture Topic 16. Systematics of mollusks

Lecture Topic 17. Characteristics of the phylum Echinodermata. Phylogeny of the invertebrate animal kingdom