V monografii obobshcheny rezul'taty issledovaniy amfibiy i reptiliy tsentral'noy chasti Privolzhskoy vozvyshennosti, provedennykh v 1979-1981 g.g. i 1984-2007 g.g. Posobie vklyuchaet v sebya svedeniya, kotorye naibolee polno otrazhayut sovremennoe sostoyanie i rasprostranenie amfibiy i reptiliy na territorii tsentral'noy chasti Privolzhskoy vozvyshennosti. V rabote rassmatrivaetsya taksonomicheskiy sostav i ekologo-faunisticheskaya kharakteristika, proiskhozhdenie i istoriya gerpetofauny kraya, privodyatsya dannye o sostoyanii okhrany a takzhe meropriyatiya po sokhraneniyu nizshikh nazemnykh pozvonochnykh. Izdanie prednaznacheno dlya spetsialistov gerpetologov, zoologov i ekologov, prepodavateley i studentov biologicheskikh i ekologicheskikh distsiplin, kraevedov, a takzhe rabotnikov prirodookhrannykh vedomstv.