A general survey of the invertebrates, vertebrates and marine plants as communities with emphasis on local examples o these principal groups. Students have an opportunity to examine marshland, estuarine, beach, dune inlet and neritic habitats and niches. Lectures, laboratory and field work are included. A survey of Protozoa through Mollusca, with emphasis on local forms. This study covers taxonomy, life cycles, ecology and evolution, Lecture, laboratory and field work are included.
Students have ample opportunity to acquire a collection of local fauna.
A study of marine fishes, reptiles and mammals, with and in-depth, comprehensive treatment of their systematics, zoogeography and ecology. Lectures encompass subject matter on a nonregional basis. Field an laboratory work stresses the vertebrate fauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Most of the course is devoted to fiches. Students have an opportunity to assemble a collection of vertebrate species.