| Catalog # | Denom. | Date | Turtle | Description | Comment | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 750f | 18 Feb 00 | Three Sea Turtles | Sheet of eight stamps w/ a wide central gutter, having an overall photomosaic of the Titanic made up of thousands of tiny photographs, three of which depict sea turtles. | Photos of turtles are so small as to be difficult to discern w/ the naked eye. | ||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Ten Different Species | Sheet of nine se-tenant stamps w/ a different turtle on each one, plus a Mauremys caspica in background, mostly hidden by stamps, showing in upper, left, and right selvedges. | Date is from inscription on stamps. Pictures are identical to those on a poster printed in Italy in 1993. | ||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Chelodina longicollis | From sheet of nine. | |||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Emys orbicularis | From sheet of nine. | |||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Mauremys nigricans | From sheet opf nine. (This is the form M. m. mutica, which was once accorded specific status.) | |||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Malaclemys terrapin | From sheet of nine. | |||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Chrysemys picta dorsalis | A poor depiction because of unrealistic colors, but the dorsal stripe is distinctive and this is the taxon identified w/ the same picture on a 1993 Italian poster. | From sheet of nine. | ||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Geochelone gigantea | From sheet of nine. Identified on 1993 Italian poster as Megalochelis gigantea. | |||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Dermochelys coriacea | From sheet of nine. | |||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Pelodiscus sinensis | From sheet of nine. Identified on 1993 Italian poster as Trionyx sinensis. | |||||||||||
| 150f | 1998? | Cuora flavomarginata | From sheet of nine. | |||||||||||
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