Capital: Apia
Population: 179,000
Languages: English,
Samoan
Currency: Tala
SAMOA

as SAMOA I SISIFO

1972


ISLAND LIFE
(SG 399a & 399c)

$2 Green turtle
Chelonia mydas
$5 Green tree lizard
Pili

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
$2
Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
$5
none
Emoia samoensis
Samoan skink

A series of 13 stamps featuring the wildlife of Samoa i Sisifo, two of which are of herpetological subjects. The lizards labelled Green tree lizard or Pili is most likely the Samoan skink (Emoia samoensis) which is olive-green in colour.

1978


HAWKSBILL TURTLE CONSERVATION PROJECT
(SG 506-507)

15c Turtle hatchery
40c Hawksbill turtle
Eretmochelys imbricata

 

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
40c
Eretmochelys imbricata
Eretmochelys imbricata
Hawksbill sea turtle

Two stamps commemorating the efforts to conserve and breed the endangered Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata).

 

as SAMOA

1995


YEAR OF THE SEA TURTLE
(SG 966-969)

70s Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
70s Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
70s Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
70s Pacific Ridley turtle
Lepidochelys olivacea

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
70s
none
Dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback sea turtle
90s
none
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead sea turtle
$1
none
Chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
$4
none
Lepidochelys olivacea
Hawksill sea turtle

 

A series of four stamps produced for the Year ofthe Sea Turtle, illustrated by the species other than the Hawksbill sea turtle (Eremochelys imbricata) featured on earlier issues.

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