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You know, I get really fatigued with all the hoopla about claims of appellation on tortoises. It may or may not be important. Species with large ranges - it seems like it could have greater significance?
Contrarily even species like Forsten's tortoise (they all live on one island) have at least two bio-type (not know how much may be genetype, to some degree they are phenotypes), in that there are dry area individuals and wet area individuals.
Maybe it would never be as well organized as @HermanniChris has western Hermans, but it seems like Yellowfoots, Redfoots, elongateds, stars, and Leopards might all bring a stronger connection to some of everyone if they came with known locality.
I recall when I was buying fish for the Zoo's aquatic turtle section many came with an "L" number indicating that these fish were collected from this location. Plecos seem to stand out in my mind. We had some really cool ones.
Blah blah.
Does any one have this kind of weird fetish to seek tortoises with location specificity? Maybe to a river drainage or water shed. "The brown river water shed upstream from where the blue river enters it" kind of thing?
Contrarily even species like Forsten's tortoise (they all live on one island) have at least two bio-type (not know how much may be genetype, to some degree they are phenotypes), in that there are dry area individuals and wet area individuals.
Maybe it would never be as well organized as @HermanniChris has western Hermans, but it seems like Yellowfoots, Redfoots, elongateds, stars, and Leopards might all bring a stronger connection to some of everyone if they came with known locality.
I recall when I was buying fish for the Zoo's aquatic turtle section many came with an "L" number indicating that these fish were collected from this location. Plecos seem to stand out in my mind. We had some really cool ones.
Blah blah.
Does any one have this kind of weird fetish to seek tortoises with location specificity? Maybe to a river drainage or water shed. "The brown river water shed upstream from where the blue river enters it" kind of thing?