Universität Wien

300046 VO Mollusca (2024W)

Organization, Biology and Systematics of Mollusca

5.00 ECTS (3.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
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Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 01.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 03.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 08.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 10.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 15.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 17.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 22.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 24.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 29.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 31.10. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 05.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 07.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 12.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 14.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 19.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 21.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 26.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 28.11. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 03.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 05.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 10.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 12.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 17.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 07.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 09.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 14.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 16.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 21.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 23.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 1.5, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.012, Ebene 1
  • Thursday 23.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1
  • Tuesday 28.01. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 1.2, Biologie Djerassiplatz 1, 1.004, Ebene 1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The Mollusca are most diverse in terms of morphology and ecology and second in species-richness only to arthropods. At the same time, it is the animal phylum with the most species under threat of extinction. The combined lecture and practical, probably unique in its depth, gives a comprehensive introduction to this phylum. The lecture deals with the general characteristics of all eight major molluscan groups, from the archaic "worm-molluscs" to the sophisticated cephalopods. It also provides a phylogenetic and evolutionary framework for the Mollusca and incorporates front-line results of all relevant fields, i.e. developmental biology, ultrastructure research, palaeontology, and molecular phylogeny.

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral exam (no aids allowed).

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Capacity to explain selected topics of the lecture in the frame of an oral exam.

Examination topics

Compete content of the lecture.

Reading list

MIZZARO-WIMMER,M. & SALVINI-PLAWEN, L. (2001): PraktischeMalakologie. Beiträgezurvergleichend-anatomischen Bearbeitung der Mollusken: Caudofoveata bis Gastropoda – *Streptoneura*, I-X, 1-188, Wien (Springer-Verlag).
PONDER, W. F. & LINDBERG, D. R. (eds.) (2008): Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca, i-xi, 1-469, Berkeley and Los Angeles (University of California Press).
PONDER, W. F., LINDBERG, D. R. & PONDER, J. M. (2020): Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 1, i-xxiii, 1-900, Boca Raton, FL (CRC Press).
PONDER, W. F., LINDBERG, D. R. & PONDER, J. M. (2020): Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 2, i-xx, 1-870, Boca Raton, FL (CRC Press).
TRUEMAN, E. R. & CLARKE, M. R. (eds.) (1985): The Mollusca, Volume 10: Evolution, i-xx, 1-491, Orlando (Academic Press).
TRUEMAN, E. R. & CLARKE, M. R. (eds.) (1988): The Mollusca, Volume 11: Form and Function, i-xix, 1-504, SanDiego (AcademicPress).
WANNINGER, A. & WOLLESEN, T. (2015): Mollusca. – In: WANNINGER, A. (ed.), Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates, Volume 2: Lophotrochozoa (Spiralia): 103-153, Wien (Springer-Verlag).

Association in the course directory

MEC-9, MZO4, B-WZB, UF BU 10, UF MA BU 01, UF MA BU 04

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