A cikin 1801, Johann David Schoepff mai suna Muhlenberg ta samu a matsayin Testudo muhlenbergii a Muhlenberg ta girmamawa.A 1829, Richard Harlan sake masa suna da kunkuru Emys muhlenbergii. A jinsin da aka daga baya sake masa suna toys Calem muhlenbergii da Louis Agassiz a 1857, da kuma Clemmys muhlenbergii da Henry Watson Fowler a 1906.
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