Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory

Announcements:

INVERTBRATE ZOOLOGY IS GOING ON-LINE DURING THE SUSPENSION OF CLASSES RESULTING FROM THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC. Instructions for assignments and 'take-home' quizzes and exams will be posted on our class D2L page, not on these pages (however, these pages with lecture links will be maintained). Basically, you will complete your lab notebook as a virtual notebook in which I will supply you "digital" specimens to key out.

Lab Handouts

• Guidelines for journals
• Overcoming the Fear to Draw - some tips on drawing
• How to use a dichotomous key
• Directions to Stamp Creek 

Keys

• Freshwater invertebrate key
• Marine invertebrate key
• Terrestrial invertebrate key

Mini-practical study list

• Freshwater
• Marine
• Terrestrial

• Links and other resources

  Methods for collecting invertebrates

  "Collecting and preserving insects and mites: Techniques and tools" 
  http://www2.sel.barc.usda.gov/selhome/collprev.pdf 
  http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/SOBS/TEACHING/ecol/Pitfall_methodsho.htm

  Headlighting for Spiders:

  http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/mes/notes/entnote12.html

  Some invertebrate keys and guides

  Microscopic invertebrates in freshwater

  http://www.gwu.edu/~darwin/BiSc11/Labs/key.pdf

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/ (not a key)

   

  Nematodes

  http://nematode.unl.edu/key/nemakey.htm

   

  Flatworms in freshwater

  http://www.lucidcentral.com/keys/lwrrdc/public/Aquatics/abflat/html/about.htm (not a key)

   

  Bivalves in freshwater

  http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cbd/musselmanual/key.html (advanced)

   

  Isopods in freshwater

  http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/crustacea/isopoda/accessory/!whatiso.pod/key.html

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/great_lakes/isopods/key/intro.htm (Great Lakes)

   

  Mayfly larvae

  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ric/pubs/aquatic/mayfly/index.htm

   

  Calanoid copepods 

  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/RIC/Pubs/Aquatic/Calanoid/key.htm

   

  Cladocera 

  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/ric/Pubs/Aquatic/crustacea/clad-key.htm#clad.key

   

  Scyphozoan Cnidarians

  http://hermes.mbl.edu/BiologicalBulletin/keys.html

   

  Leaf litter invertebrates

  http://web.missouri.edu/~bioscish/

   

  Terrestrial insect Orders and Common Families

  http://eny3005.ifas.ufl.edu/lab1/index.htm

   

  Spiders

  http://140.211.62.101/catalog/home.shtml

   

  Tardigrades

  http://kancrn.org/tardigrades/gidentify.cfm

  http://www.iwu.edu/~tardisdp/keypage1.html

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay99/dwbear.html