There are three snakes native to Britain, the adder, the grass snake and which other?
Fauna of Great Britain adder being the only venomous snake to be found there. The other notable snakes found in Great Britain are the grass snake and the smooth snake. Great Britain has three native breeds 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 by the public. Other reptile species exist but are not native: aesculapian snake, wall lizard and the green lizard. In general the avifauna of Britain is similar to that of Europe, consisting largely of Palaearctic species. As an island, it
Grass snake is about . The grass snake is widely distributed in mainland Europe, ranging from mid Scandinavia to southern Italy. It is also found in the Middle East and northwestern Africa. British grass snakes were thought to belong to the subspecies "N. n. helvetica", though this is now recognised as a separate species. This species was considered to be one of only three snakes to occur in Great Britain, but the grass snakes in Great Britain have now been reidentified as barred grass snake "Natrix helvetica", any records of "N. natrix" in Britain are now considered to have originated from imported