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===Etymology===
The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''mawii'', is in honour of the collector of the [[Holotype|type specimen]], Lieutenant Mawe of the British Navy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |date=2011 |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |page=171 |isbn=978-1-4214-0135-5}}</ref>

This species is usually vernacularly called ''tortuga blanca'' in Spanish, because it can be readily distinguished when prepared as food. When the meat of this turtle is cooked, it turns a white colour, unlike the more common turtle meat (''[[Trachemys scripta]]''), which colours dark.<ref name=Campbell1998>{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=Jonathan A. |date=1998 |title=Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, the Yucatán and Belize |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=orUl8Ezs1iQC&pg=PA111 |location=Norman, Oklahoma |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |pages=111–113 |isbn=0806130660}}</ref>