Stamp: Pacific Ground Boa (Candoia carinata) (Solomon Islands 1979)
Pacific Ground Boa (Candoia carinata) (Solomon Islands 1979)
18 September (Solomon Islands ) within release Reptiles and Amphibians goes into circulation Stamp Pacific Ground Boa (Candoia carinata) face value 6 Solomon Islands cent
| Stamp Pacific Ground Boa (Candoia carinata) in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Michel: | Mi:SB 388 |
Stamp is vertical format.
Also in the issue Reptiles and Amphibians:
- Stamp - Brown Tree Snake (Bolga irregularis) face value 3;
- Stamp - Green Tree Snake (Dendrelaphis calligaster) face value 4;
- Stamp - Pacific Ground Boa (Candoia carinata) face value 6;
- Stamp - Copper-tailed Skink (Emoia cyanura) face value 8;
- Stamp - Mourning Gecko (Lepidodactylus ligubris) face value 10;
- Stamp - Mangrove Monitor (Varanus indicus) face value 12;
- Stamp - Anglehead (Gonocephalus godeffroyi) face value 15;
- Stamp - Cane Toad (Bufo marinus) face value 20;
- Stamp - Marsh Frog (Platymantis solomonis) face value 25;
- Stamp - Gunther's Triangle Frog (Ceratobatrachus guentheri) face value 30;
- Stamp - Treasury Island Tree Frog (Litoria thesaurensis) face value 35;
- Stamp - Solomons Red Krait (Salomonelaps par) face value 45;
- Stamp - Solomon Islands Skink (Corucia zebrata) face value 1;
- Stamp - Guppy's Frog (Discodeles guppyi) face value 2;
- Stamp - Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) face value 5;
Stamp Pacific Ground Boa (Candoia carinata) it reflects the thematic directions:
Reptiles are tetrapod (four-limbed vertebrate) animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology. Because some reptiles are more closely related to birds than they are to other reptiles (e.g., crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards), the traditional groups of "reptiles" listed above do not together constitute a monophyletic grouping (or clade). For this reason, many modern scientists prefer to consider the birds part of Reptilia as well, thereby making Reptilia a monophyletic class.
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).
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia (also called Metazoa). All animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and independently, at some point in their lives. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their lives. All animals are heterotrophs: they must ingest other organisms or their products for sustenance.
