Citations:Emyda

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Translingual citations of Emyda

Proper noun: synonym of "Lyssemis"

English citations

• 1831, John Edward Gray, Synopsis Reptilium; or, Short Descriptions of the Species of Reptiles, part I: “Cataphracta: Tortoises, Crocodiles, and Enaliosaurians”, order i: ‘Chelonii’, family iv: « Trionychidæ », genus 2: ‹ Emyda › (pages 49–50):

  Gen. 2. EMYDA. (Emyda.)
  Margo dorsi cartilaginea ossibus marginalibus sustentata. Pedes retracti valvulis e margine sterni ortis inclusi. Sternum latum.
  The margin of the dorsal shield is supported by a series of small bones in the front and hinder extremity, similar to the bones of the margin in the other tortoises; and the sternum, which has each of the bones of which it is composed furnished with callosities, is also provided with valves or flaps on the edges of the sides over the legs, which they quite hide from view when the animal is withdrawn within the shell.
  1. Emyda punctata, (Punctured Emyda.) — Scutellis obscure viridibus, occipite maculis duabus albis ornato, sterno 7-calloso callis postice unitis.
  Test. punctata, Lacép, t. 7, f. 1, (v. Mus. Par.) cop. Test. scabra, Latr. and Chagrined Tortoise, Test. granulata, Shaw, iii. t. 14, et Enc. M. t. 6, f. 4, et Daud. Rept. iii. t. 19, f. 2. Test. granosa, Schoepf, t. 30, f. A. B. Trionyx Coromandelicus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. xiv. t. Anat. et Cuv. Os. Fos. v. t. 12, f. 47, Anat. Test. Dura, Hamilton, Icon. ined. (v. Icon. Mus. Ind.) Illust. Ind. Zool. t.
  Junior. Obscure viridi, maculis subrotundis irregularibus luteis nigro marginatis ornata; capite supra albo maculato, genis albo lineatis. Illust. Ind. Zool. t.   , f.   .
  Habit. in Indiæ fluvio Ganges.
  The vertebral bones vary from 6 to 9; the hinder callosities are united only in the adult animals, and hence Cuvier considers it to have 6 callosities, and Geoffrey 7.