"This new edition is a modified version of our 2012 book, updated to reflect advances in the knowledge of the natural history of snakes, and improvements in their taxonomy and classification"--Page 6 of ECIP galley.
David Gower is a Merit Researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, whose expertise lies in caecilian amphibians and Triassic archosaurian reptiles as well as snakes. Long interested in amphibians, reptiles, and conservation biology, Katie Garrett is a British filmmaker and science communicator based in Virginia. Herpetologist Simon Maddock is a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum and a Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution at Newcastle University, UK.
