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Ai Generated illustration Wildlife Concept of Turtle testudo hermanni tortoise Royalty Free Stock Photo

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Postage stamp Romania, 1996. Hermann`s Tortoise Testudo hermanni turtle Royalty Free Stock Photo

Closeup Forest turtle - Hermann's tortoise - Testudo hermanni boettgeri Royalty Free Stock Photo

Spur thighed turtle Testudo graeca and Hermann`s tortoise Testudo hermanni, back to back Royalty Free Stock Photo

$Side view of a Young turtle, Hermann\'s tortoise, Testudo hermanni, isolated on white Royalty Free Stock Photo$

Forest turtle - Hermann's tortoise(Testudo hermanni boettgeri). Closeup head and shield. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Forest turtle in grass - Testudo hermanni boettgeri. Allso known as the Hermann`s tortoise, Mediterranean tortoise Royalty Free Stock Photo

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (the crown group of the superorder Chelonia), characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield. Turtle may either refer to the Testudines as a whole, or to particular Testudines which make up a form taxon that is not monophyletic. Hermann's Tortoise (Testudo hermanni) is one of five tortoise species traditionally placed in the genus Testudo, which also includes the well-known Marginated Tortoise (T. marginata), Greek Tortoise (T. graeca), and Russian Tortoise (T. horsfieldii), for example. Three subspecies are known: the Western Hermann's Tortoise (T. h. hermanni), the Eastern Hermann's Tortoise (T. h. boettgeri) and Dalmatian Tortoise (T. h. hercegovinensis). Sometimes mentioned subspecies T. h. peleponnesica is not yet confirmed to be genetically different to T. h. boettgeri.