01 January (Cinderellas ) within release Moldova : Transinistria goes into circulation Se-tenant Snake overprint face value 800 Russian ruble
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Colnect codes: | Col: MD-TR 1994-01/2 |
Se-tenant is horizontal format.
Black overprint on se-tenant pair Soviet Union 4k stampsAlso in the issue Moldova : Transinistria:
Se-tenant Snake overprint it reflects the thematic directions:
Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes Like all other squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with several more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads (cranial kinesis). To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as kidneys) appear one in front of the other instead of side by side, and most have only one functional lung. Some species retain a pelvic girdle with a pair of vestigial claws on either side of the cloaca. Lizards have independently evolved elongate bodies without limbs or with greatly reduced limbs at least twenty-five times via convergent evolution, leading to many lineages of legless lizards. These resemble snakes, but several common groups of legless lizards have eyelids and external ears, which snakes lack, although this rule is not universal (see Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, and Pygopodidae).