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
From: Prevalence of Salmonella serovars isolated from reptiles in Norwegian zoos
| Suborder | Family | Species | No. of reptiles | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
