Stamp: New Zealand Fur Seal, Westport (Personalized and Private Mail Stamps 2008)

New Zealand Fur Seal, Westport (Personalized and Private Mail Stamps 2008)

01 June (Personalized and Private Mail Stamps ) within release New Zealand : New Zealand Mail (NZM) goes into circulation Stamp New Zealand Fur Seal, Westport face value 50 New Zealand cent

Stamp New Zealand Fur Seal, Westport in catalogues
Colnect codes: Col: NZ-NZM 2008-BUL1201B

Stamp is square format.

Buller Series Imprint: NZM 06/08 1201

Also in the issue New Zealand : New Zealand Mail (NZM):

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Country: Personalized and Private Mail Stamps
Date: 2008-06-01
Emission: Private
Format: Stamp
Face Value: 50 New Zealand cent

Stamp New Zealand Fur Seal, Westport it reflects the thematic directions:

Marine mammals are mammals that rely on marine (saltwater) ecosystems for their existence. They include animals such as cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses), sirenians (manatees and dugongs), sea otters and polar bears. They are an informal group, unified only by their reliance on marine environments for feeding and survival.

Marine life, or sea life or ocean life, refers to the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet. Marine organisms produce much of the oxygen we breathe. Shorelines are in part shaped and protected by marine life, and some marine organisms even help create new land. Altogether there are 230,000 documented marine species, including over 16,000 species of fish, and it has been estimated that nearly two million marine species are yet to be documented. Marine species range in size from the microscopic, including plankton and phytoplankton which can be as small as 0.02 micrometres, to huge cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) which in the case of the blue whale reach up to 33 metres (109 feet) in length, being the largest known animal.

Pinnipeds (pronounced /ˈpɪnɪˌpɛdz/), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless seals, or true seals), with 34 extant species and more than 50 extinct species described from fossils. While seals were historically thought to have descended from two ancestral lines, molecular evidence supports them as a monophyletic group (descended from one ancestor). Pinnipeds belong to the suborder Caniformia of the order Carnivora; their closest living relatives are musteloids (weasels, raccoons, skunks and red pandas), having diverged about 50 million years ago.

Stamp, New Zealand Fur Seal, Westport, Personalized and Private Mail Stamps,  , Sea (Marine) Mammals, Sea Life, Seals (Animals)