New Zealand post issued a set stamps featuring varied marine animals. The beautiful artwork was inspired by the Poor Knights Islands, which lie 23 kilometres off New Zealand’s Tutukaka coast in the upper North Island. A total marine reserve and nature reserve, these 11-million-year-old islands are rich with incredible marine life. New Zealand’s 15,000 kilometres [...]
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Marine Life IV – Squirts and Sponges
April 6th, 2011 
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1,958 viewsA selection of colourful squirts and sponges which can be found in the sea surrounding Jersey. Tunicates, also known as urochordates, are members of the subphylum Tunicata or Urochordata, a group of underwater saclike filter feeders with incurrent and excurrent siphons that is classified within the phylum Chordata. While most tunicates live on the ocean [...]
Fishes of Taiwan
March 20th, 2011 srmodh 1,564 viewsThe native freshwater fish of Taiwan’s rivers, lakes, and estuaries comprise the most diverse group of vertebrates within the island’s terrestrial ecosystem. Taiwan Post issued a set of stamps to introduce the beauty of Taiwan’s freshwater fishes. The first set of the series features Taiwan endemic fishes: Candidia barbatus, Opsariichthys pachycephalus, Spinibarbus hollandi, and Squalidus [...]
Seals II – Island
February 7th, 2011 srmodh 957 viewsIsland post issued a set of two stamps featuring Ringed seal and Grey seal found in Island. Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) is slightly smaller than the harbor seal. This species has a circumpolar distribution and is by far the largest seal stock in the Artic. It is a common vagrant in Iceland, especially in the [...]
Biodiversity and Oceanography
January 27th, 2011 srmodh 1,968 viewsSpain post issued a stamp reflecting the importance and concern of society in Oceanography, the science devoted to the study of the seas, its phenomena, the marine flora and fauna, and to biodiversity – number of plant and animal species of the oceans. The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Higher Council for Scientific Research) [...]
Antarctic – Leopard seal
January 25th, 2011 srmodh 1,567 viewsBulgaria post issued a new definitive stamp of Antarctic animal Leopard seal. The Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the Southern Elephant Seal). It can live twenty-six years, possibly more. Orcas and large sharks are the only natural predators of leopard seals.
