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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

 

 

Taxonomic changes

31 Jan. 2010

Following several authors I removed the toad genera Epidalea and Pseudepidalea and placed included species back in the genus BufoAmphibians, Bufo, GDR, Great Britain, Ireland, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Somalia

30 Oct. 2009

Corn Snake (Pituophis guttatus) back in the genus Pantherophis [Collins & Taggart (2008)]. Reptiles, Pantherophis, Laos

30 Sep. 2009

Blanding’s Tree Snake (Boiga blandingii) in the resurrected genus Toxicodryas [Trape & Mané (2006)]. Reptiles, Toxicodryas, Gabon

30 Apr. 2009

Ryukyu Box Turtle (Cuora flavomarginata evelynae) raised to species level [Ernst, Laemmerzahl & Lovich (2008)]. Cuora, Madagascar, Ryukyu Islands

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

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

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

01 Jan. 2009

Grand Cayman or Blue Iguana (Cyclura nubila lewisi) raised to species level [Burton (2004)]. Cyclura, Cayman Islands

30 Nov. 2008

I changed the listing for the Salamander and the Newt in the 1990-set from Turkey:
Salamander probably is Salamandra infraimmaculata, Newt probably is Ommatotriton ophryticus. Turkey, Salamandra, Ommatotriton

01 Sep. 2008

Uracoan Rattlesnake (Crotalus vegrandis) treated as a subspecies of Neotropical Rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus)
[Campbell & Lamar (2004)]. Crotalus, Venezuela

 

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.

Guinea-BissauLithobates sylvaticusGuinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-BissauLithobates clamitansGuinea-Bissau
Guinea-BissauPseudacris cruciferGuinea-Bissau
Guinea-BissauPseudacris cruciferGuinea-Bissau