Definition of Family Chelydridae

1. Noun. Snapping turtles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Chelydridae

family Certhiidae
family Cervidae
family Cestidae
family Cetorhinidae
family Chaetodontidae
family Chalcidae
family Chalcididae
family Chamaeleonidae
family Chamaeleontidae
family Characeae
family Characidae
family Characinidae
family Charadriidae
family Chelonidae
family Cheloniidae
family Chelydridae (current term)
family Chenopodiaceae
family Chermidae
family Chimaeridae
family Chinchillidae
family Chironomidae
family Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydomonadaceae
family Chloranthaceae
family Chlorophthalmidae
family Chrysochloridae
family Chrysomelidae
family Chrysopidae
family Chytridiaceae
family Cicadellidae

Literary usage of Family Chelydridae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geologisches Zentralblatt (1904)
"As the fossil of Gafsa is not alike to. any of those of this family Chelydridae till now known, is provisionally referred to a new genus ..."

2. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1907)
"The Common Snapping Turtle belongs to the family Chelydridae of the order of the Chelonia or the Turtles; and it may be pointed out that the comparatively ..."

3. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1906)
"Type in the American Museum of Natural History. The Port Kennedy specimens are in the Philadelphia Academy. Family CHELYDRIDAE. Genus CHELYDRA Schweigger. ..."

4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1906)
"Type in the American Museum of Natural History. The Port Kennedy specimens are in the Philadelphia Academy. Family CHELYDRIDAE. Genus CHELYDRA Schweigger. ..."

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