But zeeschildpad doesn’t include things like box turtles that live near bodies of water but not all the time, right? I guess here in Belgium we just use “schildpad” for everything.
It also sounds cooler to translate it to shield-toad lol
idk what a box turtle even is 😭 but here in the netherlands we call all of them “schildpad” too. literally no normal human here will say “look a zeeschildpad” (except for biologists probably)
Technically this is nor taxonomy, since we aren’t talking about relatedness. This is just linguistics.
explanation
Land dwelling evolved multiple times in turtles, like in box turtles, which are not in the clade of tortoises, but would fit the common definition of tortoise.
A turtle lives in water, a tortoise lives on land. A turtle’s not a tortoise, it’s not hard to understand.
But they are turtles, like every crow is a bird.
And every jackdaw is a crow!
Here’s the thing…
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in dutch theyre called landschildpad and zeeschildpad (landshelltoad and seashelltoad)
Shelltoad is a fantastic name for them
But zeeschildpad doesn’t include things like box turtles that live near bodies of water but not all the time, right? I guess here in Belgium we just use “schildpad” for everything.
It also sounds cooler to translate it to shield-toad lol
idk what a box turtle even is 😭 but here in the netherlands we call all of them “schildpad” too. literally no normal human here will say “look a zeeschildpad” (except for biologists probably)
Tuuuurtle turtle-urtle-urtle, turtle urtle urtle urtle. GAH, IT’S NOT A TORTOISE
Wait wait wait. Have we been lied to? Are Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo tortoises?
Most humans live above ground level, you sound like your live in your mother’s basement. Doesn’t make you a different species, does it?
So you’re just admitting you don’t understand taxonomy
Technically this is nor taxonomy, since we aren’t talking about relatedness. This is just linguistics.
explanation
Land dwelling evolved multiple times in turtles, like in box turtles, which are not in the clade of tortoises, but would fit the common definition of tortoise.