Australian Bureau of Statistics
Celebrating the International Year of Statistics 2013

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This group covers zoology.
It includes:

• the study of terrestrial vertebrates (other than humans);
• non-insect terrestrial invertebrates;
• ornithology;
• herpetology;
• freshwater ichthyology; and
• entomology

060801 Animal Behaviour
060802 Animal Cell and Molecular Biology
060803 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology
060804 Animal Immunology
060805 Animal Neurobiology
060806 Animal Physiological Ecology
060807 Animal Structure and Function
060808 Invertebrate Biology
060809 Vertebrate Biology
060899 Zoology not elsewhere classified

Exclusions:
a) Palaeontology other than that associated with palaeoecological studies is included in Group 0403 Geology.
b) Cell and molecular biology not specific to plants or animals is included in Group 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology.
c) Animal ecology and marine ichthyology are included in Group 0602 Ecology.
d) Animal systematics, taxonomy and phylogeny are included in Group 0603 Evolutionary Biology.
e) Animal physiology is included in Group 0606 Physiology.
f) The use of live animals for purposes of primary production is included in Group 0702 Animal Production.
g) Fisheries and aquaculture for primary production is included in Group 0704 Fisheries Sciences.
h) The human immune system is included in Group 1107 Immunology.
i) The human nervous system is included in Group 1109 Neurosciences.
j) The use of live animals or material from live animals for medical research is included in Group 1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences.
k) Animal bioethics is included in Group 2201 Applied Ethics.