#1488 · 🦎 reptiles

Hermann's Tortoise

🇳🇱 Griekse Landschildpad ·Testudo hermanni

VUvulnerable 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © josefwirth · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © wp-polzin · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
5. © Céline · CC BY 4.0
6. © Errol Véla · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Italy:© Alberto Tamietti · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Toscana, IT:© Paolo Soldani · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, GR:© trishcooper · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Croatia:© misel-jelic · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Hermann's tortoise ( Testudo hermanni ) is one of five tortoise species traditionally placed in the genus Testudo , the others being the marginated tortoise ( T. marginata ), Greek tortoise ( T. graeca , or spur-thighed tortoise), Russian tortoise ( T. horsfieldii ), and Kleinmann's tortoise ( T. kleinmanni , or Egyptian tortoise). Two subspecies are known: the western Hermann's tortoise ( T. h. hermanni ) and the eastern Hermann's tortoise ( T. h. boettgeri ). Sometimes mentioned as a subspecies, T. h. peleponnesica is not...

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,144iNaturalist observations
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #15 most seen of the reptiles in NL.
12,144 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.