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Definition of Emydidae

1. Noun. Box and water turtles.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emydidae

Literary usage of Emydidae

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

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"Of the Emydidae, the pond and river turtles, there are known'eight Bridger species, all of which have been described by Leidy and Cope. ..."

2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"In many Emydidae the nuchal forms from a seventh to a fifth of the length ... there appears to be no conclusive reason why even Emydidae might not have had ..."

3. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"Although the Chelydridae are known in the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene of the western interior, the Emydidae appear there first in the middle Paleocene ..."

4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"... developed the form of pelvis seen in the Emydidae and Testudinidae. Among the more generalized forms of Emydidae, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"This is, that the vertebral elements of the carapace are not prolonged to the posterior marginal bones as in Emydidae* but terminate so as to allow of three ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1871)
"Am. Jour. Sci., 1870, p. 187. Trionychidae; Gray, Bell, Dum., Bibr., Agassiz. Emydidae; Emydidae and Chelydridae, Agassiz. ..."

7. The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1886)
"This is also the case with most Emydidae ; among whose genera, however, ... This we see among the Emydidae. 5. In the important character of the ..."

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