noun
See herpetology
‘He was primarily a herpetologist and mammalogist and he described many genera and species that are still used today.’
- ‘H. Robert Bustard is a Scottish herpetologist with a special interest in crocodilians and chelonians.’
- ‘Some herpetologists thought those results suggested the likelihood of interbreeding among local populations of the same species.’
- ‘Walter Auffenberg, a herpetologist formerly at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, demonstrated that Komodo monitors can detect carrion from nearly seven miles away.’
- ‘By profession I am a herpetologist, a biologist specializing in reptiles and amphibians.’
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