Editing Herpetology (section)

==Subfields==
The field of herpetology can be divided into areas dealing with particular [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomic]] groups such as frogs and other amphibians ([[batrachology]]),<ref name="Wareham2005">{{cite book|author=D.C. Wareham|title=Elsevier's Dictionary of Herpetological and Related Terminology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqDDmwLgMXcC&pg=PR9|date=2005|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-08-046017-8}}</ref><ref name="Angelici2015">{{cite book|author=Francesco M. Angelici|title=Problematic Wildlife: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1c-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA584|date= 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-22246-2|pages=584–585}}</ref> snakes (ophiology or ophidiology), lizards (saurology) and turtles (cheloniology, chelonology, or testudinology).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rhodin |first=Anders G. J. |date=2 August 2017 |title=Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.) |url=https://www.academia.edu/53519041 |journal=Chelonian Research Foundation and Turtle Conservancy |via=[[Academia.edu]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Inger |first=Robert F. |date=1992 |title=A Bimodal Feeding System in a Stream-Dwelling Larva of Rhacophorus from Borneo |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1446167 |journal=Copeia |volume=1992 |issue=3 |pages=887–890 |doi=10.2307/1446167 |jstor=1446167 |issn=0045-8511}}</ref>

More generally, herpetologists work on functional problems in the [[ecology]], [[evolution]], [[physiology]], [[behavior]], taxonomy, or [[molecular biology]] of amphibians and reptiles. Amphibians or reptiles can be used as [[model organism]]s for specific questions in these fields, such as the role of frogs in the ecology of a [[wetland]]. All of these areas are related through their evolutionary history, an example being the evolution of [[viviparity]] (including behavior and [[reproduction]]).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Blackburn|first=Daniel G.|title=Squamate Reptiles as Model Organisms for the Evolution of Viviparity|date=December 2006|journal=Herpetological Monographs|volume=20|issue=1|pages=131–146|doi=10.1655/0733-1347(2007)20[131:SRAMOF]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=86044099 |issn=0733-1347}}</ref>