Document Type
Syllabi
School
HSE
Department
CS
Course Subject
SCED
Course Number
6117
Course Section
CO
Course Title
Diversity of Fishes
Academic Term and Year
Spring 2019
Course Description
With well over 24,000 species alive today, the world's fishes comprise by far the largest and most diverse of all vertebrate groups. This seminar provides an introduction to this incredible diversity and looks at how scientists study fishes. Our examination asks us to re-evaluate and finally ask: what exactly is a fish? This course takes you into the lab with Museum scientists. Students are led through the steps of an actual investigation of a group of South American catfish (Hypoptopoma). Using the rules of cladistics (a system of classification) we seek to determine if a lab specimen is a new species.
Recommended Citation
Randle, David, "SCED6117-CO.Diversity of Fishes.Sp19.Randle,David" (2019). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 13490.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/13490