Evidence: nutrition / feeding of companion reptiles (tortoise, lizard, chelonian)
Source: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-07-22. Query: (reptile OR "bearded dragon" OR "turtle") AND (diet OR feeding OR nutrition). The cluster returns 10839 records in Europe PMC; 5 representative studies are extracted below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.
Studies
- PMID 41007981 (2025, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI) — Systemic CD3+ T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Bearded Dragon (<i>Pogona vitticeps)</i>: Clinical, Therapeutic, and Pathological Findings.. A three-year-old male bearded dragon (<i>Pogona vitticeps</i>) exhibited acute anorexia.
- PMID 41632107 (2026, Acta veterinaria Hungarica) — Effect of different dietary supplements on the growth and blood parameters of bearded dragons (Pogona vitticeps).. Metabolic bone disease of nutritional origin (Ca/vitamin D3 deficiency) is common in pet reptiles.
- PMID 41317138 (2026, Veterinary medicine and science) — Detection of Cryptosporidium and Giardia duodenalis in Reptiles in Thailand.. Cryptosporidium spp.
- PMID 41017027 (2025, Emerging infectious diseases) — Reptile Exposure in Human Salmonellosis Cases and Salmonella Serotypes Isolated from Reptiles, Ontario, Canada, 2015-2022.. Reptile-associated outbreaks of human Salmonella infections are increasing in Canada, coinciding with a rise in the popularity of reptiles as pets.
- PMID 42041919 (2026, Biology) — Herping the African Continent: Alien Amphibians and Reptiles in Sub-Saharan Africa.. Introduction of species represents today one of the most important problems of nature conservation.
Source text: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_exotic_reptile_nutrition_2026-07-22.txt (Europe PMC first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-07-22).