Mollusk Stamp of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone is Commonwealth of Nations member nation in a republican form of government nation located in western part of West Africa, Atlantic coast. It was with a British colony as an emigration place of blacks freed from Egyptian bondage in 1808 and became independent in 1961. It was with one of the countries which an average life span had a shortest by the civil war that lasted approximately nearly ten years once in the world.
The fish stamp which drew seven kinds of Mollusk / deep sea fish from these Sierra Leone was issued in 2011.


Republic of Sierra Leone
2011.10.3 Mollusk/Deep Sea Fish Stamp
Glowing Sucker Octopus
Stauroteuthis syrtensis
(Stauroteuthidae)
Giant Hatchetfish
Argyropelecus gigas
(Sternoptychidae)
Dumbo Octopus
Opisthoteuthis albatrossi
(Opisthoteuthidae)
Vampire Squid
Vampyroteuthis infernails
(Vampyroteuthidae)
Pelican Eel
Eurypharynx pelecanoides
(Eurypharyngidae)
Dana Octopus Squid
Taningia danae
(Octopoteuthidae)
Atlantic Football Angelfish
Himantolophus groenlandicus
(Himantolophidae)


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