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| Anguis fragilis .Slow-worm. Adult female | |
| The female Slow-worm can usually be identified by the darker flanks and the pronounced vertebral stripe. This female has clearly suffered recent tail loss, presumably from an encounter with a predator,and it cna be see that it has barely started regrowing. | |