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    Posted: 03 Aug 2012 at 9:56am
I found this adult (probably female) Slow Worm under a refugia tin yesterday whilst surveying for Adders. This is by far the darkest Slow Worm I've seen as it was almost totally black on top. Would this be described as Melanistic / Melanic do you think?





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