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Testudo hermanni (Hermann's tortoise)
Taxonomy
Testudo hermanni was named by Gmelin (1789). It is extant.
It was recombined as Eurotestudo hermanni by Lapparent de Broin et al. (2006); it was recombined as Chersine hermanni by Bour and Ohler (2008), van Dijk et al. (2014), Vlachos and Rabi (2018), Vlachos (2021).
It was recombined as Eurotestudo hermanni by Lapparent de Broin et al. (2006); it was recombined as Chersine hermanni by Bour and Ohler (2008), van Dijk et al. (2014), Vlachos and Rabi (2018), Vlachos (2021).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1789 | Testudo hermanni Gmelin |
| 1995 | Testudo hermanni Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 238 |
| 2006 | Eurotestudo hermanni Lapparent de Broin et al. |
| 2008 | Chersine hermanni Bour and Ohler |
| 2014 | Chersine hermanni van Dijk et al. |
| 2018 | Chersine hermanni Vlachos and Rabi p. 663 |
| 2021 | Chersine hermanni Vlachos |
| 2022 | Testudo hermanni Zoboli et al. |
| 2023 | Testudo hermanni Delfino et al. |
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Testudo hermanni Gmelin 1789 [Hermann's tortoise]
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Vlachos 2021 | Within the more inclusive Testudo clade (or Testudo s.l.), fossils of the Hermann’s tortoises are easily distinguished by those of the derived Testudo, because of the absence of a hinge between the hypoplastra and the xiphiplastra. Another character that is quite useful, especially when working with isolated fragments, is the presence of marginals XII crossing the pygal plate |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ernst and Barbour 1989 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Holocene or 11.63000 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections (38 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Miocene | Greece (Pieria) | Chersine hermanni (226436) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | France (Midi-Pyrenees) | Testudo hermanni (35076) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Italy (Sardinia) | Testudo hermanni (51477) | |
| Pleistocene | Greece | Testudo hermanni (202329) | |
| Pleistocene | Italy (Toscana) | Testudo hermanni (36373) | |
| Calabrian | Spain (Murcia) | Testudo hermanni (34128) | |
| Calabrian | Spain (Palencia) | Testudo hermanni (205225 205226 205227 205228 205229 205230 205231 205232) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Limousin Region) | Testudo hermanni (195221) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Corse) | Testudo hermanni (69062) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Trieste) | Testudo hermanni (43700) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Siracusa) | Testudo hermanni (175900) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Capri Island) | Testudo hermanni (43016) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Malaga) | Testudo hermanni (195564) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Verona) | Testudo hermanni (43655) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Spain (Valencia) | Testudo hermanni (221420 221422 221424) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain (Valencia) | Testudo hermanni (205285 221412 221413 221414 221415 221416) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain (Murcia) | Testudo hermanni (205288) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Testudo hermanni (122309 205286) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Portugal (Leiria) | Chersine hermanni (230380) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy (Sicily) | Testudo hermanni (233217) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Peloponnesus) | Testudo hermanni (184245) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Greece (Argolida) | Testudo sp. (182709) | |
| Holocene | Sudan | Testudo hermanni (208787) |