- 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 oflivingvertebrates: Agnatha and Gnathostomata (Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia).
Insights on biology, ecology and systematic of amphibians and reptiles.
Italian herpetofauna.
Readings/Bibliography
Baccetti B. et al., 1991 -Trattato italiano di Zoologia -Grasso Ed.
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
Westheide W., Rieger R. - 2011 – Zoologia sistematica (Filogenesi e diversità degli animali) – Edizioni Zanichelli
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
oral examination
Teaching tools
Power Point. Zoological preparations, Museum ostensions. Analyticalkeys.
Students are provided of power point files containing the didactic material
Office hours
See the website of Rosanna Falconi