This volume, the final one in the Biology of the Reptilia series and Volume 25 in the Contributions to Herpetology, covers a vast literature on turtles, crocodilians, lizard, snakes and tuatara.
It includes their behavior, development, ecology, morphology, neurology and physiology, as well as their evolution and systematics. It is a synthesis of the 22,255 literature references included in 136 chapters by 169 authors over a 40-year period, with links to the chapters in which the reference appeared and an extensive cross-referenced subject index.