Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Ebe e si agafe: Ọ bụ Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, bụ́ onye ọkà mmụta ihe ọkụkụ na ụkọchukwu na-akụzi ihe n'onwe ya, kwuru banyere ụkpara a na narị afọ nke 18. Muhlenberg, bụ́ onye kpọrọ aha ihe karịrị ụdị osisi 150 nke Ebe Ugwu America, nọ na-eme nnyocha banyere ahịhịa ndị dị na Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, mgbe ọ chọtara obere akpụkpọ anụ a. N'afọ 1801, Johann David Schoepff kpọrọ ihe Muhlenberg chọpụtara aha ya bụ Testudo muhlenbergii iji sọpụrụ Muhlenberg. N'afọ 1829, Richard Harlan gbanwere aha nnụnụ ahụ bụ Emys muhlenbergii. Louis Agassiz mechara kpọọ ụdị ahụ Calemys muhlenbergii n'afọ 1857, Henry Watson Fowler kpọkwara ya Clemmys muhlenbergii n'afọ 1906. Ihe ndị ọzọ a na-akpọ ya bụ Emys biguttata, nke Thomas Say kpọrọ aha ya n'afọ 1824 n'ihi ụkpara a hụrụ n'ebe dị nso na Filadelfịa, na Clemmys nuchalis, nke Dunn kọwara n'afọ 1917 n'ebe dị nso na Linville, North Carolina. Taa, e nwere aha dịgasị iche iche a na-akpọ ụsụ, gụnyere ụsụ apịtị, ụsụ apịtị, ụsụ isi na-acha odo odo, na ụsụ isi. A gbanwere aha ụdị ahụ ịbụ Glyptemys n'afọ 2001. Ruo mgbe ahụ, a na-agụnye ụkpara na ụkpara osisi, bụ́ Glyptemys insculpta, n'òtù Clemmys, bụ́ nke gụnyekwara ụkpara nwere ntụpọ (C. guttata) na ụkpara ọdọ mmiri nke ebe ọdịda anyanwụ (C. marmorata). Nnyocha nke usoro nucleotide na nyocha nke DNA ribosom na-atụ aro na e nwere njikọ chiri anya n'etiti ụsụ na ụsụ osisi, ma ọ dịghị nke ọ bụla n'ime ha nwere njikọ chiri anya na ụsụ nwere ntụpọ, ya mere nkewa nke genus Glyptemys.  Ajụjụ: Gịnị ka e ji gbanwee aha akpụkpọ anụ ahụ?
Emys muhlenbergii