BA260 Taxonomy and nomenclature

Faculty of Science
Spring 2001
Extent and Intensity
3/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Rudolf Rozkošný, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Rudolf Rozkošný, DrSc.
Department of Botany and Zoology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Rudolf Rozkošný, DrSc.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Taxonomy, systematics and nomenclature. Typological, nominalistic and biological species concept. Biological classification, taxonomic characters and their sorting, evaluation and coding. Polarity of characters, synapomorphy and symplesiomorphy, cladogram construction. Weighting of characters, optimalization, effect of missing characters and parsimony. Similarity and relationship. Rules of zoological nomenclature.
Syllabus
  • Zoological taxonomy and nomenclature 1. Taxonomy as a part of systematics, main methods and object of study. 2. History of taxonomy, local fauna and flora, classification, population systematics. 3. Basic terms: species, phenon, taxon, category, character, similarity and relation, monophyly. 4. Species concept (typological, nominalistic and biological), definition. 5. Species as a taxon. Polytypic species and its application, intraspecific categories, variety, dem, form, group. 6. Population taxonomy. Population structure and continuum, New Systematics, superspecies, fylogenetic taxonomy, anagenesis and cladogenesis, homology a homoplasy, paralelism, convergence and analogy. 7. Numerical phenetics. Principles, methodology, phenogram. 8. Difficulties in cladistic classification and consequences, weighting and anagenetic analysis. 9. Classical cladistics. Principles, methodology, character analysis (plesiomorphy, apomorphy, autapomorphy, polarity), cladograms. 10. Difficulties in cladistic classification and consequences, principle of holophyly. 11. Evolutionary classification. Model of phylogenesis, substrate of phylogenesis, evolutionary trends, grades and clades. 12. Zoological nomenclature. Criteria of validity, principle of coordination, homonymy and synonymy, types. Collections and identification.
Literature
  • HOUŠA, Václav and Pavel ŠTYS. Mezinárodní pravidla zoologické nomenklatury (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature). 3rd ed. Praha: Academia, 1988, 188 pp. ISBN 21-103-88. info
  • SCHUH, Randall T. Biological Systematics. Priciples and Applications. 1st ed. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2000, 239 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3675-3. info
  • MINELLI, Alessandro. Biological systematics : the state of the art. 1st pub. London: Chapman & Hall, 1994, 387 s. ISBN 0412626209. info
  • KITSCHING, Jan J. and Peter L. et al. FOREY. Cladistics. The theory and practice of parsimony analysis. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 228 pp. ISBN 0 19 850138 2. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2002.
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