Definition of Family Emydidae

1. Noun. Box and water turtles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Emydidae

family Ebenaceae
family Echeneidae
family Echeneididae
family Edaphosauridae
family Eimeriidae
family Elaeagnaceae
family Elaeocarpaceae
family Elapidae
family Elateridae
family Electrophoridae
family Eleotridae
family Elephantidae
family Elopidae
family Embiotocidae
family Empetraceae
family Emydidae (current term)
family Endamoebidae
family Engraulidae
family Enterobacteriaceae
family Entolomataceae
family Entomophthoraceae
family Epacridaceae
family Ephedraceae
family Ephemeridae
family Ephippidae
family Equidae
family Equisetaceae
family Erethizontidae
family Ericaceae
family Erinaceidae

Literary usage of Family Emydidae

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

1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"1. An undetermined species in the museum of Professor Bel), from the Eocene clay near Harwich. II. family Emydidae, Fresh-water Tortoises. 2. ..."

2. Medical and Physical Researches; Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"Cuvier subdivides the genus into such as have two lids, and such as have but one. We transfer these subdivisions to the family Emydidae. 2nd GENUS. ..."

3. Bibliotheca Zoologica[i]: Verzeichniss der Schriften über Zoologie, welche by Julius Victor Carus, Wilhelm Engelmann (1861)
"... a new genus of freshwater Tortoises, of the family Emydidae. in : Zoolog. Journ. Vol. 3. 1827. p. 511—513. ..."

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