is mine Western or Eastern??

[Beeliz]

I can't figure out if my baby Peewee is a western or an Eastern species...
anyone want to chime in??
thanks!

he's 8 months...thanks!

 

[luvpetz27]

I am not sure??
Sure is a cutie pie tho!!

 

[Tim/Robin]

Most likely an Eastern. A photo of the plastron would be helpful.

 

[Beeliz]

It doesn't matter to me either way,I love him to no end!
here's his plastron,,he's 8 months...

 

[HermanniChris]

I'm not seeing inguinal scutes so looks like you have a Dalmatian tortoise. Definitely not a western hermanns.

 

[HermanniChris]

I'm not seeing inguinal scutes so looks like you have a Dalmatian tortoise. Definitely not a western hermanns.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

I'm wondering if you've got a Testudo hermanni hercegovinensis (Dalmation subspecies)...quite a bit of black on the plaston for a boettgeri, but not so much to think hermanni, plus the carapace is not as intensely colored as most T.h.h.

---

I'm not seeing inguinal scutes so looks like you have a Dalmatian tortoise. Definitely not a western hermanns.

Wow...finally (probably) guessed right?

 

[Beeliz]

Haha! Is the species different from a eastern hermann? I hope what I have been doing for him is still correct?

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Haha! Is the species different from a eastern hermann? I hope what I have been doing for him is still correct?

No, care is pretty similar for any of the 3 (some consider there being 4) subspecies...what's right for one subspecies is right for the others.

One of my 4, Jennifer, seems to be a cross between the Eastern and the Dalmation, and for quite a while the Eastern and Dalmation were considered to be one and the same...not sure exactly when those who decide such things declared them different.

Left to right: Ptolemy, Jennifer, Apollonia, Ophelia​