Editing Common slow worm (section)

== Taxonomy ==
[[File:Anguis-distribution.png|left|thumb|Distribution of species of European slow worms]]
''Anguis fragilis'' was historically divided into two subspecies (''A. f. fragilis'' and ''A. f. colchica''). However, recent taxonomic classification has resulted in the categorisation of these as separate species:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Živa – Přehlížená rozmanitost slepýšů (Jiří Moravec, Václav Gvoždík)|url=https://ziva.avcr.cz/2019-5/prehlizena-rozmanitost-slepysu.html|access-date=2021-03-24|website=ziva.avcr.cz}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Václav Gvozˇ dík, David Jandzik, Petros Lymberakis, Daniel Jablonski, Jirˇ í Moravec |title=Slow worm, Anguis fragilis (Reptilia: Anguidae) as a species complex: Geneticstructure reveals deep divergences |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |date=2010 |volume=55 |issue=2 |pages=460–472 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2010.01.007 |pmid=20079858 |bibcode=2010MolPE..55..460G |url=https://www.academia.edu/5309027 |access-date=1 April 2022}}</ref>

* '''''Anguis fragilis'' ''sensu stricto''''' (found in western Europe, northern Europe, and western Balkans)
* '''''[[Anguis colchica]]''''' (found in eastern and northern Europe, eastern Balkans, and in western Asia)
Three more species were later distinguished from ''A. fragilis'':
* '''''[[Anguis graeca]]''''' (found in southern Balkans)
* '''''[[Anguis veronensis]]''''' (found on the Apennine Peninsula)
*'''''[[Peloponnese slowworm|Anguis cephalonica]]''''' (native to the Peloponnese Peninsula)