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The reptiles of Great Britain include three native ... Baker, J. and Foster, J. Priorities for Non-Native Amphibians and Reptiles in the UK. ARC Research Report 11/02.
The other notable snakes found in Great Britain are the barred grass snake and the smooth snake. Great Britain has three native species of lizard: slowworms, sand lizards and viviparous lizards. There are also turtles, such as leatherback turtles to be found in the Irish Sea, although these are rarely seen.
Salamanders and newts . Fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) — has bred at least once [citation needed]; Alpine newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) (naturalised) [1]; Italian crested newt (Triturus carnifex) [2]
†Houting – In the UK, the houting was declared extinct in 1977 by D. A. Ratcliffe. It was last recorded in the UK from the River Colne, West Yorkshire in 1925. [citation needed] †Orkney charr – last reported in 1908 and declared extinct in the IUCN Red List in 2024 [52]
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...
Four species of snake are, the European adder, grass snake, barred grass snake [2] and smooth snake.Some introduced snakes are aesculapian snake and dice snakes.. Adder. Lizards found in England are slowworms, common lizards, sand lizards, European green lizards (introduced) and the common wall lizard (introduced from mainland Europe - found in the Isle of Wight.)
This is a list of reptiles of Europe. It includes all reptiles currently found in Europe . It does not include species found only in captivity or extinct in Europe , except where there is some doubt about this, nor (with few exceptions) does it currently include species introduced in recent decades.
The reptiles include the adder and the grass snake, the slowworm, which is a legless lizard, and the common lizard. Smooth snakes, found elsewhere in the UK are absent, and grass snakes are rarely reported. [147]