14-07-2013, 11:55 AM | #11 |
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Two very similar sub-species of Hermann's tortoise are currently recognized. The western race, T. hermanni hermanni, from northern Spain, southern France, northwest Italy and some of the islands in the western Mediterranean, tends to be the smaller and more brightly colored of the two sub-species, and has a more domed carapace and usually a yellow spot on the head behind each eye. The plastron is marked longitudinally by two distinct dark bands. The very variable eastern race, T. hermanni boettgeri, from southern Italy, Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia and the Balkans, tends to have a less highly domed carapace with less contrast to the markings, may lack the yellow spot behind the eye (although many have it!), and, most distinctively, tends to have more diffuse sometimes discontinuous plastral markings.
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