Publication Identification

Field	Information
Country	United States
Publisher	T.F.H. Publications, Inc.
Publisher address	One TFH Plaza, Neptune City, New Jersey 07753
Magazine title	Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist
Publication status	Discontinued.  November 2001 is identified as the final issue by independent magazine indexes.
Publication run	May 1999 through November 2001.  The combined successor title followed the acquisition and merger of Reptile Hobbyist and Reptile & Amphibian Magazine.
Editor	Tom Mazorlig (documented among the editorial staff for the represented combined run)
Printer	Pending research update
ISSN	1525-4712
Language	English
Publication type	Specialist reptile and amphibian hobby magazine
Publication frequency	Monthly during the combined title period

Preservation Significance

Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist is preservation significant because it represents the documented successor created from two established American herpetological magazines.  The collection includes the May 1999 issue, the first combined issue named in the contemporary merger notice, together with later issues extending through November 2001.  This makes the collection capable of documenting not only a magazine title but the actual transition from two predecessor publications into a single successor.

The surviving issues preserve a concentrated period of late 1990s and early 2000s herpetoculture.  Snake material remains especially prominent, including Mexican milk snakes, green rat snakes, island pythons, California kingsnakes, gray banded kingsnakes, black rat snakes, corn snakes, salt marsh snakes, Ruthven’s kingsnake, California garter snakes, Angolan pythons, rosy boas, bushmasters and boa breeding.

The successor title also carried forward the broader editorial range of both predecessors.  The represented issues include frogs, turtles, tortoises, monitors, geckos, breeding, vivarium design, field herpetology, enrichment and natural history.  The result is a useful record of how T.F.H. combined two different herpetological publishing traditions into one monthly magazine.