Marine Studies II 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 10 lessons in this course:

1 Introduction and Simple Organisms

• Terminology
• Classification or Taxonomy
• Simple and microscopic organisms
• Types of protazoans
• Ciliates
• Flagellates
• Algae
• Bacteria
• Plankton
• Sponges

2 Marine Plants

• Terminology
• Overview of seaweeds
• Chlorophyta (Green Algae)
• Phaeophyta (Brown Algae)
• Rhodophyta (Red algae)
• Marine fungi
• Marine flowering plants: sea grasses, mangroves, salt marsh plants

3 Cnidarians and Worms:

• Terminology
• Anemones
• Jellyfish
• Crustaceans
• Worms: flatworms, ribbon worms, round worms
• Segmented worms. peanut worms, giant tube worms

4 Arthropods

• Introduction
• Characteristics
• Prawns and shrimps
• Deep water prawns in the atlantic
• The common prawn (Palaemon serratus)
• Giant red shrimp
• Pink prawn
• Shallow water prawns
• Indian white prawn
• Tiger prawn
• Kuruma shrimp
• Green tiger prawn
• Peneaeus notialis and others
• Barnacles
• Crabs
• True crabs
• Hermit crabs

5 Molluscs

• Introduction and classification
• Characteristics
• Gastropods
• Whelk
• Bivalves
• Mussels and oysters
• Cocles
• Green lipped mussels, common mussel, mediterranean mussel, and others
• Pacific oyster, European flat oyster, Olympia oyster
• Nudibranchs (open gilled sea slugs)
• Cephalapods
• Octopuses
• Biology of the octopus
• Cuttlefish
• Squid: classification and biology
• Oegopsida squid and other squid
• Chitons

6 Echinoderms:

• Terminology
• Characteristics of Echinoderms
• Starfish
• Sea Urchins
• Sea Cucumbers

7 Non Bony Fishes:

• Lampreys
• Hagfishes
• Sharks
• Rays

8 Bony Fishes I

• Introduction
• Terminology
• Structure and biological characteristics
• Classification

9 Bony Fishes II

• Families within Oesteichyes
• Mesopelagic fish: distribution, life historyand ecology
• Clupeoids (eg. sardine, herring)
• Tunas: types, life history, feeding, predators
• Mackerels
• Bill Fish (Marlins, spear fish, sail fish)

10 Marine Mammals and Higher Animals

• Marine reptiles: sea snakes, sea turtles, crocadylians
• Pinnipeds (seals walruses, Seal lions
• Dugongs and Manatees
• Whales and Dolphins
• Sea birds

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.