Invertebrate Zoology: A Laboratory Manual - Tapa blanda

Announcement: A 2nd edition of this lab manual is now available. The title has been changed to "Laboratory Exercises in Invertebrate Zoology." It is a much expanded and improved version including 86 additional pages of material, 71 new figures and 46 links to supplemental video material about the biology or ecology of invertebrate animals. The 1st edition will continue to be available to those who prefer to keep using it. This laboratory manual supports a one-semester course in invertebrate zoology. Exercises in this manual focus on an approach where you observe specimens, draw them, write down your own observations about them, and then pose questions based on what you observed. This pattern of observing and asking is the same approach zoologists often take when they develop new lines research about what animals do and how their bodies work. The manual includes introductions to microscopy and phylogenetic analysis, and hands-on exercises focusing on representatives from the following animal taxa: Symplasma – syncytial sponges; Cellularia – cellular sponges; Cnidaria – Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa, Cubozoa, and Anthozoa; Platyhelminthes – Turbellaria, Neodermata (Monogenea, Digenea, and Cestoda); Mollusca – Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda, and Bivalvia; Annelida – Sipuncula, Errantia, Sedentaria; Brachiopoda (articulate and inarticulate); Nematoda; Panarthropoda – Lobopodia, Tardigrada, Arthropoda (Trilobilomorpha, Chelicerata, Arachnida, Crustacea, Myriapoda, Hexapoda); Echinodermata – Asteroidea, Echinoidea, Holothuroidea, echinoderm development; Hemichordata – Enteropneusta; and Chordata – Tunicata, Cephalochordata. I produced these exercises because the prices of textbooks and laboratory manuals have become extremely expensive over the past 20+ years. Students today sometimes have to spend over $90 for a new copy of a laboratory manual in invertebrate zoology. I’m sorry, but in my opinion that’s just too much. I field-tested these exercises in my invertebrate zoology course over the past five years, and I just completed a comprehensive review of this material. I hope this lab manual will now help provide at least a little financial relief when it’s time for today’s invertebrate zoology students to buy books.

Alan Holyoak earned BS and MS degrees in Zoology from Brigham Young University, and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has taught invertebrate zoology for over 20 years, first at Manchester University (IN) and currently at Brigham Young University-Idaho. During his career he has also taught or carried out research at The Friday Harbor Labs of the University of Washington, The University of Hawaii, The Long Marine Lab of UC Santa Cruz, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, and the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology of the University of Oregon.