Table 3.
Details of the Lampropholis guichenoti specimens intercepted entering New Zealand. The inferred Australian origin of each specimen from the molecular data (Fig. 3B) is compared with the predicted origin recorded in the Ministry for Primary Industries interception database. All intercepted lizards were found alone, except for LDN229 that was one of eight individuals found in the same shipping container
| Interception | Lizard | Origin | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample code | Location | Month | Transport method | Border or post-border | Cargo type | Snout-vent length | Adult? | Alive? | Predicted | Confirmed | Haplotype |
| LDN65 | Auckland/Rotorua | April | Air | Post-border | Personal effects | 32 | N | Alive | Bega, NSW | NSW/VIC border region | GNZ1 |
| LDN66 | Auckland | May | Sea | Post-border | Shipping container (ceramics) | 42 | Y | Alive | Adelaide | Adelaide | GNZ2 |
| LDN67 | Auckland/Rotorua | December | Sea | Post-border | Shipping container (household effects) | 44 | Y | Alive | Eden, NSW | NSW/VIC border region | GNZ3 |
| LDN229 | Wellington | February | Sea | Border | Shipping container | 18 | N | Alive | Adelaide or Melbourne | Melbourne region | GNZ4 |