Expos, symposiums, museum and zoo events and more offer herpers an opportunity to meet friends,
learn about reptiles and more. Check out the upcoming herp events listed below.
At the Mesa Convention Center in November, the next Phoenix Reptile Expo will have thousands of live reptiles and amphibians on display and for sale along with cages, supplies, food, books and more.
This reptile event is open to the public. For directions, hotel accommodations and more please check out our web site!
Club Meeting Calendar
Every month herpetological societies and reptile and amphibian clubs gather to talk about reptiles, experiences, issues, and connect in person with other herpers. Look for your local club meeting on the calendar below.
Our mission is to promote understanding, appreciation, and conservation of reptiles and amphibians; encourage respect for their habitats; and foster responsible captive care. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in reptiles and amphibians. Our members include professional biologists and amateur naturalists with years of experience, as well as those with a beginning interest in herps, either keeping and breeding them, or seeing them in the wild. .
Upcoming Meetings:
Herpetogical societies provided the very first "social network" for reptile hobbyists and still provide that same service.
Check out your herp societies next meeting!
Clubs/Orgs
Herpetological societies are typically non-profit, private organizations, clubs or organized groups of reptile and amphibian enthusiasts that are geographically focused around a specific state, province, or region. Many groups accept corresponding members from anywhere in the world. Most are open to the public, having been founded by hobbyists and non-professionals to promote education and conservation while often sharing knowledge related to husbandry and breeding.
Our mission is to promote understanding, appreciation, and conservation of reptiles and amphibians; encourage respect for their habitats; and foster responsible captive care. Membership is open to anyone with an interest in reptiles and amphibians. Our members include professional biologists and amateur naturalists with years of experience, as well as those with a beginning interest in herps, either keeping and breeding them, or seeing them in the wild. .
kingsnake.com has been gathering herp event photos since we launched our photo gallery over 10 years ago. We are in the process of sorting through all our event photos and catgegorizing them by event to create a historical archive. If you have reptile and amphibian event photos from expos, sympomsiums, lectures, field trips or others and would like to participate, please upload them to our herp events photo gallery. To upload your herp event photos to our events gallery, click here.
List a club or organization
kingsnake.com plays host to a diverse community of reptile and amphibian enthusiasts worldwide. If you represent a non-profit reptile or amphibian club or organization and would like your website listed here for free, please submit your link to the Organizations Editor by clicking here.
Featured club or organization
Featured club and organizations are selected by kingsnake.com's editors from our list of linked clubs. To have your club or organziation considered for a featured listing please make sure it has been listed as detailed above.
List your clubs meeting schedule
If you represent a non-profit reptile or amphibian club or organization and would like your club's meeting schedule added to our club meeting calendar here for free, please submit your link and meeting details to the Organizations Editor by clicking here.
List a club or organization event
kingsnake.com's events calendar is the best place to list your non-profit organizations reptile and amphiban event on our site, appearing literally on hundreds of pages throughout the site. If you represent a non-profit reptile or amphibian club or organization and would like your club's expo, symposium or special event added to our events calendar here for free, please submit your link and event details to the Organizations Editor by clicking here.
Purchase a commercial event listing
kingsnake.com's events calendar is the best place to list your businesses reptile and amphiban event on our site, appearing literally on hundreds of pages throughout the site, and reaching thousands of reptile and amphibian hobbyists and businesses every day. If you represent a reptile or amphibian related business and would like your commerical expo, symposium or special event added to our events calendar, you can view listing rates and purchase a commercial event listing by clicking here .
Purchase a featured event listing
There are hundreds of reptile and amphibian events around the world every year, sometimes as many as a dozen in a single weekend. A Featured Event listing on kingsnake.com can help your event stand out from the others, with an enhanced listing on kingsnake.com's index page events tab, and on kingsnake.com's events and clubs pages. With a 600x400 .html area available for your code you can include a logo, picture, video or more to your Featured Event listing. To purchase a featured event listing click here..
Reptile and amphibian expos, symposiums, zoo and museum exhibitions and other educational events are great
places to ask questions, get answers and network with other herp keepers. Upcoming Reptile and Amphibian Events:
Looking for a reptile or amphibian related business? A reptile store, breeder, importer,
maunfacturer or supplier? Our business directory lists some of the most popluar herp businesses in the world.
kingsnake.com's Connect is a beta project being developed to let the herp community stay in touch with
their friends and fellow hobbyists, keep each other up to date on legislative issues as they develop, and to build and strengthen
the herp community network. Registered users of kingsnake.com can use it to share photos, links, information, alerts, updates and more. log infind connections
Check out these reptile and amphibian submitted by staff, volunteers, and users of the kingsnake.com community.
Our system supports videos hosted on YouTube. If you have a favorite YouTube video, please submit it here.
Our gallery allows registered users to upload their favorite reptile and
amphibian photos to the topic galleries and personal photos to the member galleries. Photos can be used on our forums, classifieds,
and Connect, or shared with friends and family.
Online since 1997, kingsnake.com's classifieds are among the oldest
and largest pet classifieds on the web and reach thousands of reptile and amphibian owners
worldwide every day.
Enter a keyword to search kingsnake.com's classifieds.
Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the
oldest and largest systems on the internet. Here you may share and discuss information with others
about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements,
permits and licenses, and more.
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This glossary of reptile and amphibian terminology was written and compiled by long time kingsnake.com member Gerald Germany (oldherper). Thanks to Paul Hollander, Jeff Barringer, Bill Love, and Jeff Nichols (shadindigo) for their review, corrections, additions and comments.
