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What is this reptile?

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It looks to me like a legless lizard (we all get that way sometimes), similar to the slow worm indigenous to England, but I´d still like to know exactly what it is.

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It is a slow worm. Anguis fragilis. Same species as in the UK. From the colouring probably an adult female or a juvenile. Males are usually a paler colour with no obvious line on the back or dark belly. I have quite a large colony of them in my own garden.

PS. There is another legless lizard found in Spain but it is a burrowing species and looks very like a large earthworm. Definitely not that one!
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