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MB3180:03

Biology of Tropical Crustaceans

Townsville

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 5 hours tutorials, 30 hours practicals, 6 hours field work. Semester 1.

Staff:

Dr J Collins.

A review of functional morphology in relation to food procurement, ingestion and processing, aspects of sensory physiology and behaviour, microanatomy and feeding structures. A comparative approach uses a wide range of common tropical species, e.g. prawns, crabs, mantis shrimps and barnacles.

Learning Objectives:

thorough knowledge of crustacean anatomy and functional morphology;

an understanding of some fundamental physiological and behavioural processes;

practical experience in a number of techniques: microdissection techniques; histology and optical microscopy; methods of investigating feeding mechanisms and behaviour and their interpretation.

Assessment by tutorial (10%); practical and field reports (20%); written examination (70%).