elthebasket
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This looks very like the tortoise I've inherited from my late father in law, which has just come out of hibernation. Is this a Testudo graeca too?
What species?
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I was leaning towards Hermanni, but I'm not real good at IDing these guys.
As an aside, I see that the tether has been clipped. Please don't reattach it. That's a cruel way to keep a tortoise.
As an aside, I see that the tether has been clipped. Please don't reattach it. That's a cruel way to keep a tortoise.
Bo1xdream
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Not a hermanns. Doesn't have the keyhole on the 5th scute. Looks more like a marginated tortoise.
Agree with @Yvonne G . That is a Hermann's Looks like a very old, Western Hermann's
Certainly not a Marginated.
Certainly not a Marginated.
Bo1xdream
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Nah. Not a hermanns. Hermanns don't have bell-like scutes at the back of the shell like that. I looked up marginated tortoise and it looked like the one in the picture.
Moderate "flaring" is present in Greek and Hermanns tortoises (more pronounced in some subspecies).
Recognizing the Greek Tortoises
The SubspeciesAs already mentioned in other articles, there are more than ten recognizable Greek tortoise “types” in nature and in collections, even in the USA. Some, including myself, see the current taxonomic findings as insufficient. An up-to-date and in-depth research project concerning this...
www.gardenstatetortoise.com
Comparing Hermann's Tortoise Subspecies | hermannihavenhome
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Marginated tortoises have different coloration of plastron and carapace:
