Marginated and Greek tortoises

[TurtleTortoise]

I was looking at pictures of baby Greek tortoises and I found one but it said it was a Marginated tortoise. Then I looked up greek tortoises and compared. They looked exactly the same! I know mine is a greek (captive bred) but what is the difference between the two? just curious.
-thanks

 

[Lilithlee]

Marginated are bigger.... and that all I cen remember.

 

[Tortoise]

Marginated are considerably bigger as adults up to 5kg, 14 inches long, makes them the largest European tortoise,same care as Greek/hermanns
Their shell flares out too as an adult.Very pretty.
Some good info and nice photos at this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginated_tortoise

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

They all (Greeks, Marginated and Hermann's) look pretty similar to the layman as babies...and occasionally to the self-coronated "experts", too.

 

[GBtortoises]

Don't always trust that the photos you're looking at are correctly labeled either. I've seen plenty of mis-labeled photos, particularly in for sale ads by vendors.

Some Northern Mediterranean Ibera Greeks look very much like Marginateds as adults and in fact some may even be interbred and resemble some characteristics of both species. With one exception, Testudo annamurensis, Middle Eastern and North African Greeks are very distinguishable from Marginateds. One key identifying characteristic that all Marginateds generally have are light colored plastrons with matching pairs of triangular brown patches on the plastron.