Hello! I wondered if anyone might be able to help us identify our Hermann's tortoise Marcel's variety. We adopted him from a local rescue as a 2.5 year old male Hermann's, variety unspecified. I am wondering if he might not be a 6-7 year-old Dalmation or Western though. He's got a keyhole marking, a line on his third vertebral scute, a fair amount of yellow on his head, and two black bands on his plastron, though the very top pair have a gap. I can't tell whether he has inguinal scutes or not, and I am not sure about the plastron sutures. We'd like to get some females to live with him and want to be sure if he is a Western or Dalmation that we get the appropriate variety. 






If anyone familiar with the three varieties could weigh in, I'd really appreciate the help! Marcel is our first tortoise and his vet said she couldn't tell!







If anyone familiar with the three varieties could weigh in, I'd really appreciate the help! Marcel is our first tortoise and his vet said she couldn't tell!