Can someone identify the 3 torts that aren't star or leopard?

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I see there are 4 stars and 4 leopards, maybe one sulcata (the biggest), but what are the other 3?

They're gorgeous.
 

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I see four leopards, possibly 3 sulcatas, 1 Russian or hermanns? the largest in the circle and possibly 4 stars or radiated or 3 star and 1 radiated. I have a hard time with stars and rads.

4stars, no rads.
 

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What the heck, I'll give it a try, but I'm going to be wrong ;)
I'll go with 4 leopards, 4 stars, 3 sulcatas and one Greek?
 

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wellington said:
I see four leopards, possibly 3 sulcatas, 1 Russian or hermanns? the largest in the circle and possibly 4 stars or radiated or 3 star and 1 radiated. I have a hard time with stars and rads.

4stars, no rads.



I'm wondering about the ones at the bottom of the circle. If you look at the last four at the bottom, they'd be the ones on the outside. Then there's a third on the top right.

Chacos? I'm in love with their shell patterns.
 

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Hmmm maybe chacos, I think they look like small sulcatas, chacos that it. The ones with the black dots on the carapace looks greek to me. It's the biggest one and its not a sulcata.
 

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I really have no idea, but those three don't look like most sulcata pics I've seen. I'm curious to find out what all these little critters are. :) I can definitely spot the leopards.

I got the pic from someone's facebook who lives in Asia.
 

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Laurie said:
What the heck, I'll give it a try, but I'm going to be wrong ;)
I'll go with 4 leopards, 4 stars, 3 sulcatas and one Greek?

I'll go along with you
 

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Tortus said:
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I see there are 4 stars and 4 leopards, maybe one sulcata (the biggest), but what are the other 3?

They're gorgeous.

The large one to the upper left with black spots in the center of it's scutes is a Middle Eastern Greek subspecies. The two to either side of it with no markings on their carapace, as well as the the same tortoise across the circle from them are Sulcata.

All the rest are either Leopard and Star tortoises.
 

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GBtortoises said:
Tortus said:
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I see there are 4 stars and 4 leopards, maybe one sulcata (the biggest), but what are the other 3?

They're gorgeous.

The large one to the upper left with black spots in the center of it's scutes is a Middle Eastern Greek subspecies. The two to either side of it with no markings on their carapace, as well as the the same tortoise across the circle from them are Sulcata.

All the rest are either Leopard and Star tortoises.

Was my thought, too.
 

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Definitely a Greek the spots are to centered to be any hermanns that I've seen.
 

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Wow!!! How pretty! Didn't know torts came with so many different shell patterns.
 
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