| Catalog # | Denom. | Date | Turtle | Description | Comment | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40000db | 2006 | Various Tortoises | S/S of one stamp w/ tortoises on stamp and in margins. One tortoise in margin is laying eggs and two are mating. Boy scout logo in upper left corner of sheet. | All of the tortoises have scientific names under them in small print but almost every one of the tortoises is mis-named. | ||||||||||
| 40000db | 2006 | Unidentified Tortoise | Single stamp from s/s of one issued in 2006 w/ many tortoises. One tortoise facing left plus head of tortoise in upper left corner of stamp. | On the stamp the tortoise is identified as Malacochersus tornieri but this is obviously incorrect. This is most certainly not a pancake tortoise. | ||||||||||
| Various | 2006 | Numerous Species | S/S of four stamps and four stamp-like labels, all w/ one or two chelonians. Labels have Boy Scout logo, stamps do not. | Several of the chelonians are mis-identified on the stamps and labels. | ||||||||||
| 7000db | 2006 | Testudo graeca | Adult facing right. From sheet of four stamps and four labels. | |||||||||||
| 9000db | 2006 | Terrapene carolina bauri | Adult facing right. Unidentified hatchling emerging from egg in upper left corner. From sheet of four stamps and four labels. | Turtle is mis-identified as Pseudemys scripta on stamp. | ||||||||||
| 10000db | 2006 | See comment column | Unidentified tortoise facing left, next to flower. Small Clemmys guttata in upper left corner. From sheet of four stamps and four labels. | Stamp inscribed Clemmys insculpta, which is not the correct identity of either of the chelonians depicted. | ||||||||||
| 14000db | 2006 | Trionyx spiniferus | Turtle in shallow water facing right. Small Pseudemys scripta elegans in upper left corner. From sheet of four stamps and four labels. | |||||||||||
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