Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"

Zoology Science and Evolution of Animal Diversity.
Principles of Science. Origins of Life and fundamentals of
Darwinian Theory of Evolution. ProTopics in favour of the 5 Darwinian Theories on evolution. Revisions of the Darwinian Theory. Microevolution: genetic variability and changes in species.
Macroevolution: the fundamental evolutive events. Animal Ecology. Animal and ecological Hierarchy
Architecture of Animals.
Complexity and body dimensions. Exyìtracellular Components of Metazoan body. Tissue types. Organization Plans of animal body.
Classification and Phylogenesis of animals.
Linnaeus and the classification development. Taxonomic characters and phylogenetic reconstructions. Taxonomica Theories. Species. Main subdivisions of living beings.
Principal categories of animal kingdom.
Protists, forms and functions. Phyla Retortamonada and Axostylata. Phylum Chlorophyta.
Phylum Euglenozoa. Superphylum Alveolata. Phylum Apicomplexa. Phylum
Ciliophora. Phylum Dinoflagellata. Amoebas. Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Phylum Porifera,
Ecological relations. Forms and functions.
Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Radiata: Cnidarians and Ctenophora.
Phylum Cnidaria. Phylum Ctenophora. Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Bilateria Acoelomata: Platyhelminthes, Nemertea and Gnatostomulida.
Phylum Platyhelminthes. Phylum Nemertea (Rhynchocoela). Phylum
Gnathostomulida. Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Pseudocoelomata:
Phylum Rotifera. Phylum Acathocephala. Phylum Gastrotricha. Phylum Entoprocta.
Phylum Nematoda. Phylum Nematomorfa. Phylum Kinorhyncha. Phylum Priapulida.
Phylum Loricifera. Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Mollusca: Forms and function. Class Caudofoveata and Solenogastres. Class Monoplacophora.
Class Polyplacophora: chitons. Class Scaphopoda. Class Gastropoda. Class
Bivalvia (Pelecypoda). Class Cephalopoda. Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Annelida:Body organization. Class Polychaeta. Class Oligochaeta. Class Hirudinea.
Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Arthropoda
Subphylum Trilobita. Subphylum Chelicerata. Subphylum Crustacea. Subphylum
Uniramia. Subphylum Hexapoda. Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Lower Protostomia.
Phylum Sipuncula. Phylum Echiura. Phylum Pogonophora. Lophophorata. Phylum
Phoronida. Phylum Ectoprocta o Bryozoa.
Phylum Brachiopoda. Phylum Pentastomida.
Phylum Onychophora. Phylum Tardigrada.
Phylum Chaetognata. Phylogenesis and adaptive radiations.
Echinodermata and Hemichordata.
Phylum Echinodermata. Phylum Hemichordata. The origins of Vertebrata: the Chordata. The four characteristics of a chordate. Origin and evolution. Subphylum Urochordata (Tunicata). Subphylum Cephalochordata. Subphylum Vertebrata.