An alternative or variant spelling of emyd; a member of the turtle family Emydidae.
Variant form of emyd, from New Latin Emydidae and Greek emys ('turtle'). Both emyd and emyde represent the same taxonomic group with different spelling conventions.
In scientific naming, you'll often see variant spellings because different scientists adopt slightly different Latinization conventions—'emyde' and 'emyd' both refer to the same turtles, which is why biologists usually prefer the modern standardized names instead.
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