Stamp: Common Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scabra) (Guinea-Bissau 1994)
Common Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scabra) (Guinea-Bissau 1994)
16 August (Guinea-Bissau ) within release Snakes - PhilaKorea 94 - 94 Singpex goes into circulation Stamp Common Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scabra) face value 5000 Guinea-Bissau peso
| Stamp Common Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scabra) in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Stamp Number: | Sn:GW 921 |
Stamp is square format.
Snakes - PhilaKorea 94Also in the issue Snakes - PhilaKorea 94 - 94 Singpex:
- Stamp - Forest Cobra (Naja melanoleuca) face value 5000;
- Stamp - African Rock Phyton (Python sebae) face value 5000;
- Stamp - Common Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scabra) face value 5000;
- Stamp - Bush Snake (Philothamnus sp.) face value 5000;
- Se-tenant - Snakes - Tenant with MiNo. 1211-14 face value 4*5000;
- Stamp - Twig Snake (Thelothornis kirtlandii) face value 15000;
- Souvenir Sheet - Twg Snake (Thelothornis kirtlandii) face value 15000;
Stamp Common Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scabra) 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).
