Ichthyology (BIO354L) class lecture & field trip schedule & links to readings
SPRING 2004
Schedule/syllabus subject to update at any time - see http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio354l
Dr. Dean Hendrickson Curator of Ichthyology, Texas Memorial Museum Texas Memorial Museum, Texas Natural History Collection, Building 176 / R4000, Pickle Reseach Campus, 10100 Burnet Rd. - Phone (with voice mail): 232-5502; FAX: 471-9775; https://webspace.utexas.edu/~deanhend
and Section of Integrative Biology, PAT 502 - phone 232-5502. Office hours here: Mon 1:00 - 3:00; T Th 12:40 - 2:00
Contacting me: e-mail (best): deanhend@mail.utexas.edu; https://webspace.utexas.edu/~deanhend. Phones above. Mailboxes in Integrative Biology (campus mail C0930) and PRC176 (R4000).
GRADING: 42.5% each lecture & lab + 15% project. Participation also considered.
Lecture no. LECTURE - 11:00 - 12:30 T Th in ENS109. LAB (Ray Engeszer T.A.) - 2:00 - 5:00 FRI (unless otherwise specified) - ESB 123 Helfman et al. Paxton & Eschmeyer Caillet et al. other readings
Tue  20-Jan 1 Student survey. Discussion of class, grading, field trips, projects, etc.
Thu  22-Jan 2 Phylogenetics, systematics and classification. Overview of diversity of fishes. xi-17 118-121 Hendrickson (2002) Encyclopedia of Evolution: Fishes Lundberg et al. (2000). So many fishes… Jan 23 - Last day of the official add/drop period; after this date, changes in enrollment require the approval of the department chair and usually the student's dean.
Tue  27-Jan 3 Overview of history of Ichthyology, general fish anatomy/terminology. Taxonomic characters/methodologies. Locomotion. Trophic morphology/function. Respiration/Circulation, Bouyancy. Sensory Systems 21-80 + 101-116 42-47 3-51
Thu  29-Jan 4 Ray Engeszer - reproductive systems 348-383
Tue  3-Feb 5 continuation of lecture 3 Feb 4 - Last day to drop a course for a possible refund.
Thu  5-Feb 6 continuation of lecture 3 295-319 32-41 127-138
Tue  10-Feb 7 Sister groups of fishes, Agnatha, Cephalochordata, Craniata, including fossil groups to Gnathostomes (e.g. Euconodonta, Anaspidiformes, Galeaspidiformes,  151-157 + 197-204 27-29 + 56-59
Thu  12-Feb 8 Lecture Exam 1 (25% of final lecture grade. Covers all lectures and associated reading to date). PROJECT SELECTION BY THIS DATE Feb 16 - Last day to drop a course without a possible academic penalty.
Tue  17-Feb 9 Phylogeny, anatomical adaptations, and species diversity of Chondrichthyes / Historical biology and biogeography of Chondrichthyes 179-196 60-69
Thu  19-Feb 10 Cephalaspidiformes + basal Gnathastomata: Placoderms, Sarcopterygii, Actinopterygii (Semionotiforms and Amiiforms) 157-166 + 205-219 29-31 + 70-79
Tue  24-Feb 11 habitats (reading from text only); Starting Teleosts - Osteoglossomorpha/Elopomorpha/Clupeomorpha 273-317 + 166-172 + 221-226 80-95
Thu  26-Feb 12 lecture 11 continued 27 Feb - Vertebrate Nat. History field trip
Tue  2-Mar 13 Starting Ostariophysans - Cypriniformes (Cyprinidae, Catostomidae). 227-229 96-100
Thu  4-Mar 14 Dr. Gary Garrett - Texas Parks and Wildlife - endangered TX fishes and their management
Sat  6-Mar Weekend (Sat-Sun) field trip - Heart of Hills Research Station near Kerrville / Guadalupe River
Tue  9-Mar 15 Ostariophysans (lecture 13 continued)
Thu  11-Mar 16 Siluriformes and Gymnotiformes 229-230 + 75-78 106-112 Mar 12 - Intrasemester reports due in the deans' offices
Tue  16-Mar ****** Spring Break ******
Thu  18-Mar ****** Spring Break ******
Tue  23-Mar 17 Characiformes 230-231 101-105
Thu  25-Mar 18 Protacanthopterygii - Esociformes, Osmeriformes and Salmoniformes 231-236 + 75 113-118 Mar 29 - Last day an undergraduate student may, with the dean's approval, withdraw from the University or drop a course except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic reasons. Last day a student may change enrollment in a course to or from the pass/fail or credit/no credit basis. 
Tue  30-Mar 19 Cuatro Ciénegas biology and conservation (on final, not on next exam)
Thu  1-Apr Lecture and lab cancelled for field trip - Thurs noon - Sunday late PM - Cuatro Ciénegas Easter week - 3-10 April
Tue  6-Apr 20 cancelled
Thu  8-Apr 21 Lecture Exam 2 (35% of final lecture grade. Covers all lectures and associated reading since last exam)
Tue  13-Apr 22 Fish capture methods handouts
Thu  15-Apr 23 Start Neoteleosts: Stenopterygii (Stomiiformes, Aulopiformes, Myctophiformes); Acanthomorpha (Lampridiformes, Polymixiformes); Paracanthopterygii (Percopsiformes, Ophidiiformes, Gadiformes, Batrachoidiformes, Lophiformes)  236-243 119-143 + 157-159
Tue  20-Apr 24 Acanthopterygii - Mugilomorpha, Atherinomorpha, Percomorpha in part (Stephanoberyciformes, Beryciformes, Zeiformes, Gasterosteiformes, Synbranchiformes, Scorpaeniformes) 244-252 144-156 + 160-180
Thu  22-Apr 25 Percomorpha - Synbranchhiformes - Centrarchidae 248-270 181-199 & 200-231 Stiassney and Meyer
Sat  24-Apr Weekend field trip. Saturday AM - PM. TPWD Fisheries Center, Athens, TX 23 - 25 April - Vertebrate Nat. Hist. field trip
Tue  27-Apr 26 Percidae - Sciaenidae + Cichlidae 449-469 48-53
Thu  29-Apr 27 Toxotidae - Gobiesocidae - PROJECTS DUE ON SERVER BY MIDNIGHT WITH PENALTY IF LATER.
Tue  4-May 28 Gobioids - Molidae Apr 30 - May 2 Vert. Nat. History field trip with shocker
Thu  6-May Oral presentations of projects (finishing next day in lab, which is last class day)
Wed  12-May Lecture final exam 7:00 - 10:00 PM in regular lecture classroom - 40% of final lecture grade - covers all lectures and associated reading, but with about 70% of exam being on materials covered since Exam 2.