Capital: Praia
Population: 567,000
Languages: Portuguese
Currency: Cape Verdean Escudo
CAPE VERDE ISLANDS

1986


ENDANGERED REPTILES
(SG 566-570)

8e Mabuya vaillanti
10e Tarentola gigas brancoensis
15e Tarentola gigas gigas
30e Hemidactylus bouvieri
50e Mabuya vaillanti
50e Hemidactylus bouvieri

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Proposed common name
8e
Mabuya vaillanti
Chioninia vaillanti
Vaillant's skink
10e
Tarentola gigas brancoensis
Tarentola gigas brancoensis
Braco Island giant wall gecko
15e
Tarentola gigas gigas
Tarentola gigas gigas
Cape Verde giant wall gecko
30e
Hemidactylus bouvieri
Hemidactylus bouvieri
Cape Verde leaf-toed gecko
Minisheet
50e
Mabuya vaillanti
Chioninia vaillanti
Vaillant's skink
50e
Hemidactylus bouvieri
Hemidactylus bouvieri
Cape Verde leaf-toed gecko

 

Four stamps and a se-tenant two-stamp minisheet featuring endemic Cape Verde lizards, three geckos and a skink, with only the generic name of the skink changing to Chioninia following the large version of the unwieldy genus Mabuya. Of course, Cape Verde's most iconic reptile, the giant skink Macroscincus coctei is now considered extinct.

View the First Day covers for these stamps

 

1990


TURTLES
(SG 645-649)

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
50c
Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
1e
Dermochelys coriacea
Dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback sea turtle
5e
Lepidochelys olivacea
Lepidochelys olivacea
Olive Ridley sea turtle
10e
Caretta caretta
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead sea turtle
40e
Eretmochelys imbricata
Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill sea turtle

 

Five stamps featuring the sea turtles of the Atlantic.

 

2009


LIZARDS & PLANTS
(SG n/a)

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
5e
Chioninia delalandii
Chioninia delalandii
Delaland's skink
20e
Tarentola darwinii
Tarentola darwinii
Darwin's wall gecko
60e
Chioninia vaillanti
Chioninia vaillanti
Vaillant's skink

 

Three stamps in the series feature enandered lizards, two skinks and a gecko, from Cape Verde Islands.

 

 

Associated links on this site:
Cape Verde first day covers