Stamp: Southern African Rock Python (Python sebae natalensis) (South Africa, Homelands 1977)
Southern African Rock Python (Python sebae natalensis) (South Africa, Homelands 1977)
06 December (South Africa, Homelands ) within release Bophuthatswana goes into circulation Stamp Southern African Rock Python (Python sebae natalensis) face value 50 South African cent
| Stamp Southern African Rock Python (Python sebae natalensis) in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Michel: | Mi:ZA-BP 15 |
| Stamp Number: | Sn:ZA-BP 19 |
Stamp is square format.
Also in the issue Bophuthatswana:
- Stamp - Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) face value 10;
- Stamp - Tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) face value 15;
- Stamp - African Hunting Dog (Lycaon pictus) face value 20;
- Stamp - Common Duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia) face value 25;
- Stamp - African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) face value 30;
- Stamp - Southern African Rock Python (Python sebae natalensis) face value 50;
- Stamp - Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) face value 1;
- Stamp - Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) face value 2;
- Stamp - Hands, dove released face value 4;
- Stamp - Leopard face value 10;
- Stamp - Coat of arms face value 15;
- Stamp - Flag face value 20;
- First Day Cover - Independence from South Africa face value 49;
- Stamp - Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) face value 10;
- Stamp - African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) face value 1;
- Stamp - Lion (Panthera leo) face value 7;
- Stamp - Cape Porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) face value 9;
- Stamp - Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) face value 5;
- Stamp - Lion (Panthera leo) face value 7;
- Stamp - Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) face value 8;
- Stamp - Southern Bushpig (Potamochoerus larvatus koiropotamus) face value 2;
- Stamp - Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus) face value 3;
- Stamp - Leopard (Panthera pardus) face value 4;
Stamp Southern African Rock Python (Python sebae natalensis) 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).
