- Docente: Rosanna Falconi
- Credits: 4
- SSD: BIO/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biological Sciences (cod. 8012)
Learning outcomes
After completing this course the student has acquired the lines of phylogeny and biodiversity of Vertebrates in relation to living environments. In particular the student knows the systematic and ecological aspects of Amphibia and Reptilia with peculiar references to the Italian species
Course contents
Chordata.
Phylogeny of Vertebrates.
Outlines of features, diversity, evolution and classification of living Vertebrates: Agnatha and Gnathostomata (Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia).
Insights on biology, ecology and systematic of amphibians and reptiles.
Italian herpetofauna.
Readings/Bibliography
Hickman C.P., Roberts L.S., Keen S.L., Eisenhour D.J., Larson A., L'Anson H. - Zoologia - Mc Graw Hill Education. Sedicesima edizione. La parte riferita ai vertebrati
Westheide W., Rieger R. - 2015 - Zoologia sistematica - Zanichelli. La parte riferita ai vertebrati
Pough F.H., Janis C.M., Heiser J.B. – 2014 - Zoologia dei Vertebrati – Edizioni Pearson
Vannini E., Zoologia dei vertebrati - Edizioni UTET
Sindaco R., Doria G., Razzetti E., Bernini F., - 2006 - Atlante degli Anfibi e dei Rettili d'Italia - Edizioni Polistampa
Checklist of the species of the italian fauna. http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/
Teaching methods
Oral lectures. Seminars
Observation and comparison of zoological preparations.
Assessment methods
The assessment of the learning tends to assess the achievement of educational goals:
at the end of the course the student has acquired the tools to understand the phylogeny and diversity of vertebrates in relation to living environments.
In particular knows systematic and ecological aspects of amphibians and reptiles, with particular reference to the Italian species.
The grade is determined on the basis of an oral dissertation
Teaching tools
Computer, projector, Power Point. Zoological preparations, Museum ostensions. Analytical keys.
Students are provided of power point files containing the didactic material
Office hours
See the website of Rosanna Falconi