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Reptile-Stamps What’s new on this site |
Stamps added in August 2010 click on the left half of a stamp to link to the country and on the right half to link to the genus
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Taxonomic changes |
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31 Jan. 2010 |
Following several authors I removed the toad genera Epidalea and Pseudepidalea and placed included species back in the genus Bufo. Amphibians, Bufo, GDR, Great Britain, Ireland, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Somalia |
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30 Oct. 2009 |
Corn Snake (Pituophis guttatus) back in the genus Pantherophis [Collins & Taggart (2008)]. Reptiles, Pantherophis, Laos |
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30 Sep. 2009 |
Blanding’s Tree Snake (Boiga blandingii) in the resurrected genus Toxicodryas [Trape & Mané (2006)]. Reptiles, Toxicodryas, Gabon |
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30 Apr. 2009 |
Ryukyu Box Turtle (Cuora flavomarginata evelynae) raised to species level [Ernst, Laemmerzahl & Lovich (2008)]. Cuora, Madagascar, Ryukyu Islands |
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30 Mar. 2009 |
Carrot-tailed Viper Gecko (Teratolepis fasciata) belongs to the genus Hemidactylus. It’s new name is Hemidactylus imbricatus [Bauer et al. (2008)]. Hemidactylus, Reptiles, Vietnam |
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28 Feb. 2009 |
I changed the listing for a couple of Chameleon stamps. Nevertheless, some of them are still doubtful. Algeria, Mali, Mauretania, Rwanda, Suriname, Reptiles, Chamaeleo |
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31 Jan. 2009 |
Amphibian taxonomy updated according to the current 5.2 version of “Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference” [Frost (2008)]. On Reptile-Stamps this affects the genus Eleutherodactylus, which now belongs to the family Eleutherodactylidae. Amphibians, Eleutherodactylus |
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01 Jan. 2009 |
Grand Cayman or Blue Iguana (Cyclura nubila lewisi) raised to species level [Burton (2004)]. Cyclura, Cayman Islands |
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30 Nov. 2008 |
I changed the listing for the Salamander and the Newt in the 1990-set from Turkey: |
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01 Sep. 2008 |
Uracoan Rattlesnake (Crotalus vegrandis) treated as a subspecies of Neotropical Rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus) |
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Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus) in the new genus Broghammerus [Rawlings et al. (2008)]. Broghammerus, British Virgin Islands, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia |
30 March 2009
Full size images
I started to add full size images of every new added stamp on the species pages. Just click on the right half of the stamp to open (the left half still links to the country page).
Full size images of the “older” stamps will follow step by step.
