Week	Name	Description
	Learning Objectives
	Theory
	Practicals
	Frequently asked questions in fish taxonomy
	Introduction to fish taxonomy
13 February - 19 February	Learning objective
	1.1.1 Introduction
	1.1.2 Three stages of taxonomy
	1.1.3 Importance of Fish taxonomy
	1.1.4 Principal tasks of the taxonomists
	Introduction to finfish taxonomy
	Learning objective
	1.2.1 International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN)
	1.2.2 Nomenclature
	1.2.3 Naming with latin/ greek words
	1.2.4 Law of Priority
	1.2.5 Binominal nomenclature
	1.2.6 Authorship
	1.2.7 Validity
	1.2.8 Emendations
	1.2.9 Types
	1.2.10 Nomenclature change
	1.2.11 Periods of classification
	1.2.12 Generic level identification
	1.2.13 Indented key
	1.2.14 Bracket key
20 February - 26 February	2.1.1 Introduction
	2.1.2 Morphological charater use in ichthyotaxonomy
	2.1.3 Fish Diagnostics
	2.1.4 Main Organs
	2.1.5 Head Region
	2.1.5.1 Snout
	Types of Snout
	2.1.5.2 Lips
	Types of Lips
	2.1.5.3 Mouth
	Types of mouth
	2.1.5.4 Teeth
	Types of teeth
	2.1.5.5 Jaws
	Types of Jaws
	2.1.5.6 Barbels
	2.1.5.7 Nostrils
	Types of Nostrils and Barbels
	2.1.5.8 Eyes
	Eyes
	2.1.5.9 Operculum and Gills
	Types of Operculum and Gills
	2.1.5.10 Median groove
	2.1.5.11 Pectoral girdle
	2.1.5.12 Occipital process
	Types of Bones
	2.1.6 Body
	2.1.6.1 Paired fins
	Types of Paired fins
	2.1.6.2 Unpaired fins
	Types of Unpaired fins
	2.1.6.3 Lateral line
	Lateral Line
	2.1.6.4 Scales
	Types of scales
	Caudal Fins
	Morphological character
	Meristics
	2.2.1 Meristics
	2.2.2 Orders of Fishes, with Selected Families
	Morphometrics
	2.3.1 Morphometrics
	2.3.2 Methods of Measuring
	2.3.4 Definitions of Linear Measurements
	2.3.5 Definitions of Position
	2.3.6 Overall Length Measurements
	2.3.7 Other Longitudinal Measurements
	2.3.8 Vertical Measurements (Perpendicular Unless Otherwise Stated)
	2.3.9 Lateral Measurements
	2.3.10 Other Measurements
	2.3.11 Morphology and Morphometric Characters of Shark
	2.3.12 Morphology and morphometric measurements of rays
	2.3.13 Comparison of Sexes
	Morphometric measurement of shark
	Shark cross section through eye
	Shark Caudal fin
	Shark Dorsal view
	Morphometric measurement of teleosts
	Learning objectives
	2.4.1 Preservation
	2.4.2 Cataloguing
	Preservation and cataloguing
	2.5.1 Diagnostic Characters of Commercially Important
	Image
27 February - 5 March	3.1.1 Introduction
	3.1.2 Marine Finfish taxonomy
	3.2.1 Elasmobranch fishes
	3.2.1.1. Elasmobranchii
	3.2.2 Bony fishes
	3.2.2.1 Subclass Dipneusti
	3.2.2.2 Subclass Crossopterygii
	3.2.2.3 Subclass Brachiopterygii
	3.2.2.4 Subclass Actinopterygii
	sharks
	sharks
	3.3.1 Order: Auguilliformes
	3.3.1.1 Anguillidae (Freshwater eels)
	3.3.1.2 Muraenidae (Morays)
	3.3.1.3 Family: Ophichthidae: worm eels and snake eels