geminus similiter victus in aquis terraque et testudinum effectusque par, honore habendo vel propter excellens in usu pretium figuraeque proprietatem. sunt ergo testudinum genera terrestres, marinae, lutariae et quae in dulci aqua vivunt. has quidam e graecis emydas appellant.
The tortoise, too, is an animal that is equally amphibious with the beaver, and possessed of medicinal properties as strongly developed; in addition to which, it claims an equal degree of notice for the high price which luxury sets upon its shell, and the singularity of its conformation. Of tortoises, there are various kinds, land tortoises, sea tortoises, tortoises which live in muddy waters, and tortoises which live in fresh; these last being known to some Greek authors by the name of “emydes.” ― translation from: John Bostock and Henry Thomas Riley, The Natural History (1855), book XXXII: “Remedies Derived from Aquatic Animals”, chapter xiv (iv): ‘The Tortoise: Sixty-Six Remedies and Observations’
1554, Conrad Gessner, Hiſtoriæ Animalium, volume II: De Quadrupedibus Ouiparis, chapter xx: “Teſtudines quæ in aqua dulci uiuunt ſiue paluſtri ſiue fluente”, § g. (page 104):
Fel emydos illitum, omnem caliginem abolet. Hepar potum phthiſicos ſanat, Author Kœranidum.
1554, Guillaume Rondelet, Libri de Piſcibus Marinis, in quibus veræ Piſcium effigies expreſſæ ſunt, book XVI, chapter iiii: “De Teſtudine coriacea ſiue Mercurij”, pages 450–1:
ΧελώνηΘαλαττία Latinè teſtudo marina vocatur, à quibuſdam Pliniũ ſecutis mus marinus. Sed non immeritò dubitauerit aliquis, cur Plinius cùm ſæpius aliâs teſtudinem marinam Latiné vocarit, mutato nomine, aliquãdo murem marinum nominauerit ei tribuens quæ Ariſtoteles tribuit emydi ſeu teſtudini lutariæ ſiue muri aquatili, vt conuertit Gaza.
The chelone thalatia is called the sea turtle in Latin while some, following Pliny, call it the sea mouse. But someone might wonder, and not without merit, why Pliny, who very often calls it the testudo marina in Latin, sometimes calls it the mus marinus, and attributes to it those traits which Aristotle attributes to the emys, that is, the mud turtle or aquatic mouse according to Gaza’s translation. ― translation from: Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. (tr., annot.) and Anders G.J. Rhodin (ed., arr.), “Books on Marine Fish, in which True Figures of the Fish are Presented. Book XVI. Chapters II–V. On Turtles.” in Chelonian Conservation and Biology, volume II (1996), chapter iiii: ‘On the Leathery Turtle or Mercury’s Turtle’, page 297/2
1835, Jan Evangelista Purkyně and Gabriel Gustav Valentin, De Phaenomeno generali motus vibratorii continui in membranis cum externis tum internis animalium et superiorum et inferiorum classium obvii, Comentatio physiologica, chapter x: “De virium, quas physicas dicunt, in motum vibratorium influxibus”, § 79 (page 70):
Cuniculorum tracheam temperiei 5° R. expositam illico non vibrare experti sumus, quum in ejusdem temperiei aqua œsophagum Emydos europææ vibrantem observavissemus.
