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Like many temperate areas, Great Britain has few snake species: the European adder is the only venomous snake to be found there. 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.
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 mammals of Great Britain. The diversity of mammal fauna of Great Britain is somewhat impoverished compared to that of Continental Europe , due to the short period of time between the last ice age and the flooding of the land bridge between Great Britain and the rest of Europe.
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The Woodland Trust has revealed some of the weird and wonderful species that live in this country’s rare temperate rainforest habitat.
The reptiles of Great Britain include three native snakes and three native lizards. A number of sea turtles visit Great Britain's shores. There are also at least seven introduced reptile species.
This is a list of amphibians of Great Britain. There are seven amphibian species native to Great Britain , in addition, there are a number of naturalized species. The natives comprise three newts , two toads and two frogs .
That means that to be native the species must have reached Britain before the land bridge joining Britain to the continent was submerged. Alternatively, species can also be native when they have flown or swum to Britain, as is the case with many bird species which arrived after the submersion of the land bridge, a recent example of which is the ...