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Zoology is the study of animals: their classification (taxonomy);
evolutionary history (phylogeny); patterns of inheritance
(genetics); shape, appearance and form (morphology); behaviour
in their natural habitat (ethology); internal functions and
processes associated with life (physiology, biochemistry);
diseases and parasites (pathology, parasitology), relationship
to their environment (ecology), and conservation.
The animal kingdom includes more than one million living
species divided into over 30 major groups (phyla). Each major
grouping (phylum) is further divided into classes.
Invertebrates (animals that lack a backbone) constitute most
of the animal kingdom; vertebrates (animals that have a backbone)
make up only one percent. Vertebrates (a subphylum of Chordata)
are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Invertebrates
include a wide variety of organisms that live on land and
in water, such as arthropods (e.g., insects), mollusks, worms,
and many more.
Many universities across the world offer courses in zoology;
for a comprehensive listing, visit
To learn more about zoology, choose one of the following
topics.
BIOSIS is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to
foster the growth, communication and use of biological knowledge
for the common good.
This index to selected quality Internet resources offers access
to an immense range of zoological information. Choose to browse
by subject or by animal name/group. Topics include bicomplexity,
biodiversity, biological informatics, codes of nomenclature,
directories of biologists, general zoology, and systematics,
taxonomy and nomenclature.
Sponsored in part by the Interagency Education Research Initiative,
the Homeland Foundation and the University of Michigan Museum
of Zoology. An online database of animal natural history,
distribution, classification, and conservation biology, with
thousands of species accounts. These may include text, pictures
of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or
recordings of sounds.
Full-length papers and short communications on original research
on any aspect of zoology in Africa (or that is relevant to
Africa) and its surrounding oceans, seas, and islands, especially
studies in: ecology, ethology, physiology, functional morphology,
genetics, taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny, biodiversity
and conservation.
A bi-monthly publication, this is one of the most cited and
highly respected journals in the biology field.
This monthly journal features articles on behaviour, biochemistry
and physiology, developmental biology, ecology, genetics,
morphology and ultrastructure, parasitology and pathology,
and systematics and evolution.
A publication of The Zoological Society of London, the journal
publishes original papers within the whole field of zoology.
Topics include animal behavior, aquatic sciences and fisheries,
biological ecological, entomology, environmental and other
abstracts.
The journal’s scope of coverage represents every area
of the animal sciences from biodiversity and the environment
to taxonomy and veterinary sciences.
A journal devoted to the inventory, analysis, and interpretation
of animal biodiversity. It publishes original results (in
French or English) of zoological research, particularly in
systematics and related fields: comparative, functional and
evolutionary morphology, phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomy
and nomenclature, etc.
: This magazine is a publication of Arizona State
University. Click on “life sciences” and choose
‘zoology’.
: A publication of the Audubon Society, with online
articles and features.
Integrated Principles of Zoology:
by Cleveland P. Hickman
Hardcover: 928 pages
McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN:0072909617
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Invertebrate Zoology:
by Edward E. Ruppert, Robert D. Barnes
Hardcover
Brooks/Cole Pub Co
ISBN:0030266688
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Vertebrates:Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution
by Kenneth V. Kardong
Hardcover: 784 pages
McGraw Hill Text
ISBN:0072909560
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