Marine Vertebrate Zoology

Target Audience: Undergraduate Student
Graduate Student


Institution: MESC/Dauphin Island Sea Lab

Institutional Web Link: http://www.disl.org

Course Description: A survey of marine fishes, reptiles and mammals, with an in-depth comprehensive treatment of their systematics, zoogeography and ecology. Field and laboratory work will stress the vertebrate fauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico and most of the course will be devoted to fishes. Students completing this course will: 1) have a basic understanding of the biology, ecology, physiology and systematics of the various marine vertebrate taxa; 2) gain experience in field and lab identification of members of the various vertebrate taxa; and 3) gain experience in collecting various marine and island vertebrate taxa.

Funding Source: Other


How to Apply: Apply and register online: www.disl.org/up/ug-apply.

Application Closing Date: 07/03/2017

Course Begins: 2017-07-03

Course Ends: 2017-08-04