Capital: Nukunonu
Population: 1,416
Languages: English,
Tokelauan
Currency:
New Zealand Dollar
TOKELAU

1986


AGRICULTURAL LIVESTOCK
(SG 139)

48c Fonu
Reef hawksbill turtle

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
48c
none
Eremtochelys imbricata
Hawksbill sea turtle

Six stamps featuring animals used for food, including chickens, pigs, goats, ducks, the coconut crab and curiously the Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) which should be a protected species.

1995


YEAR OF THE SEA TURTLE
(SG 234-237)

25c Hawksbill turtle
Eremtochelys imbricata
40c Leatherback turtle
Dermochelys coriacea
$1.00 Green turtle
Chelonia mydas

$2.00 Loggerhead turtle
Caretta caretta

(SG MS368)

$3.00 Loggerhead turtle
Caretta caretta

 

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
25c
Eremtochelys imbricata
Eremtochelys imbricata
Hawksbill turtle
40c
Dermochelys coriacea
Dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback turtle
$1.00
Chelonia mydas
Chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
$2.00
Caretta caretta
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead sea turtle
minisheet
$3.00
Caretta caretta
Caretta caretta
Loggerhead sea turtle

An attractive series of four stamps and a minisheet commemorating the Year of the Sea Turtle.
There may also be a second minisheet.

2001


LIZARDS
(SG 314-317)

40c Gehyra oceanica
$1.00 Lepidodactylus lugubris
$1.25 Gehyra mutilata
$2.00 Emoia cyanura

 

 

 
Name on stamp
Current name
Accepted common name
40c
Gehyra oceanica
Gehyra oceanica
Mutilated gecko
$1.00
Lepidodactylus lugubris
Lepidodactylus lugubris
Mourning gecko
$1.25
Gehyra mutilata
Gehyra mutilata
Oceanic gecko
$2.00
Emoia cyanura
Emoia cyanura
Blue-tailed skink

An attractive series of four stamps featuring lizards, three geckos and a skink, from Tokelau.