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Lizards - The teal emo skink

Lizards - The teal emo skink

The teal emo skink  (The teal emo skink ) was completed for a stamp issue by Vanuatu Post, released in 1995. The artwork was featured on a set of five stamps issued on 12 April 1995, depicting the following species. 

Value

Species

Common name

25 vatu

Emoia nigromarginata

Black-bordered Emo Skink

55 vatu

Nactus multicarinatus

Solomon slender-toed gecko

70 vatu

Lepidodactylus sp.

Mourning Gecko

80 vatu

Emoia caeruleocauda

Pacific blue-tailed skink

140 vatu

Emoia sanfordi

Sanford's skink


My thanks goes to Dr George R. Zug, the curator for Reptiles and Amphibians in the Smithsonian Institute USA whose speciality included the systematics of the herpetofauna of Oceania and without whose help I could not have completed this stamp issue.

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