Prevalence of Salmonella serovars isolated from reptiles in Norwegian zoos

Table 1 Species and zoo location of reptiles sampled in the study to investigate the prevalence of Salmonella spp. in captive reptile species in Norway

Suborder	Family	Species		No. of reptiles
Suborder	Family	Species		Zoo A	Zoo B	Zoo C	Total
Cryptodira	Testudinidae	Leopard tortoise	Stigmochelys pardalis	2			2
		Hermann’s tortoise	Testudo hermanni	1	2		3
		Russian tortoise	Testudo horsfieldii	3			3
	Emydidae	Red-eared slider	Trachemys scripta elegans	16		4	20
	Emydidae	Yellow-bellied slider	Trachemys scripta scripta	5		2	7
			No. of chelonians	27	2	6	35
Iguania	Iguanidae	Green iguana	Iguana iguana	2	1		3
	Agamidae	Central bearded dragon	Pogona viticeps		2	2	4
	Chamaeleonidae	Panther chameleon	Furcifer pardalis			1	1
Scincomorpha	Lacertidae	Ocellated lizard	Timon lepidus			3	3
Scincomorpha	Scincidae	Blue-tongue skink	Tiliqua nigrolutea		1	3	4
			No. of lizards	2	4	9	15
Serpentes	Boidae	Common boa	Boa constrictor	2	3	1	6
		Cuban boa	Chilabothrus angulifer		1		1
		Rainbow boa	Epicrates cenchria		1		1
	Colubridae	Corn snake	Pantherophis guttatus	2	2		4
		California kingsnake	Lampropeltis getula californiae	1	1	1	3
		Hognose	Heterodon nasicus		2	3	5
	Pythonidae	Royal python	Python regius	1	8	8	17
		Carpet python	Morelia spilota	1	2	3	6
		Indian python	Python molurus	1	3	1	5
		Angolan python	Python anchietae		2		2
		Green tree python	Morelia viridis			1	1
		Spotted python	Antaresia maculosa		2		2
			No. of snakes	8	27	18	53
			No. of reptiles from each zoo	37	33	33	103