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order..........TESTUDINES (turtles, tortoises and terrapins)
family...........Testudinidae (Tortoises)
subfamily.......Testudininae ()
genus...............Testudo (Palearctic Tortoises)
species..............Testudo hermanni (Hermann's Tortoise)
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- Original Description
- Gmelin 1789 : 1041
- Holotype
- MZUS 121 [figured in original description; Gmelin's figure and holotype photographed in Bour 1986b].
- Type Locality
- Not stated: restricted to "Collobrières, Massif des Maures, Var, France" by Bour (1986b:111)
- Original name
- Testudo hermanni
- Common Name
- Hermann's Tortoise
- Distribution
- Islas Baleares (Spain) and southern France eastward to European Turkey and Romania; Sardinia; Corsica
- Comments
- Subgenus Testudo. Reviewed by Wermuth (1952), Street (1979), Cheylan (1981), Groombridge (1982), Bour (1986b), and Stubbs (in Swingland and Klemens, 1989).
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