We also work with a unique "locality-type" of the Eastern Hermann's, formerly a subspecies, called the Dalmatian Hermann's Tortoise (Testudo hermanni 'hercegovinensis').  These awesome little tortoises come from the Herzegovina region in Bosnia and Croatia. They are much smaller generally than the common Eastern counterparts and they are more colorful as well. They are even morphologically distinct from the Easterns and some Westerns because the lack an inguinal scutes entirely. Many keepers are very passionate, like us, about keeping the integrity of the locality-type/subspecies and maintain pure bloodlines of these wonderful animals. In many European countries in  these tortoises are still classified as a subspecies and in one French publication they're listed as a full species (Testudo hercegovinesis)! At Reptile Mountain LLC., we adamantly disagree with the "lumping" taxonomy practices and feel such actions are slopy science and an attack on the integrity of natural history and diversity.

Note: TC has previously disagreed with historical attempts to lump subspecies and has since been published and affirmed by quality science to have been accurate in classifying other reptile species as full species (re: Crotalus concolor).