10 December (British Antarctic Territory (BAT) ) within release Seals and Whales of the British Antarctic Territory (2024) goes into circulation Stamp Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) face value 74 British penny
Stamp Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) in catalogues | |
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Colnect codes: | Col: GB-AT 2024.12.10-05 |
Stamp is square format.
Also in the issue Seals and Whales of the British Antarctic Territory (2024):
Stamp Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) it reflects the thematic directions:
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.