i seen a listing for what seems to be a Russian tortoise on this website but this tortoise looks a lot different than Ayden does and the latin name is different....are they the same species or are they different? (situation - I'm looking to get another tortoise but i always hear "never mix species together". if they're different species then i don't want to get it and then have to have a separate pen for it.)
this is the tortoise from the other site -
http://www.turtlesandtortoises.com/Eastern-Hermanns-Tortoise-Testudo-hermanni-boettgeri-CB-2012.html
and this is Ayden (also, if there are major sub-species distinctions within the Russian tortoise family then does anyone know what Ayden might be, specifically?) -
this is the tortoise from the other site -
http://www.turtlesandtortoises.com/Eastern-Hermanns-Tortoise-Testudo-hermanni-boettgeri-CB-2012.html
and this is Ayden (also, if there are major sub-species distinctions within the Russian tortoise family then does anyone know what Ayden might be, specifically?) -