Animal Stamp of Vietnam

Vietnam was under the control of China for a long time, but It escaped from rule in the tenth century and became independent in 1428. It was admitted into French possession French Indochina from 1887 and took occupation of the Japanese armed forces from 1940. A French military goes ashore with Socialist Republic of Viet Nam of communism to assume Ho Chi Minh a leader in 1945 having been established by North Vietnam side. A military collision happened in 1946 and developed into the first Indo-China War. For 1948 years, France supports puppet government in South Vietnam. A Vietnamese republic is birth by the American support that Vietnam is divided after lat. 17 degrees N with French defeat in the north and south in 1954, and was replaced to France in 1955 in South Vietnam. South Vietnam frente is organized in 1960 and starts anti-U.S.A. struggle. U.S.A. came to intervene with a Tonkin case of 1964 directly and I started bombing of North Vietnam in 1965 and entered into full-scale state of war. United States Armed Forces withdrawal decides that it ends in virtual defeat of the United States Armed Forces in 1973. North and south unification was realized with collapse of South Vietnam Republic in 1975 and renamed the name of a country to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976.
Six kinds of fish stamps were issued in 1967 by Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Eight kinds of Selachain stamps were issued in 1980 by Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Eight kinds of fish stamps were issued in 1984. Six kinds of stamps on which it drew a representative crocodile of many parts of the world were issued in 1994 year. Six kinds of sea horse stamps were issued in 1997 year. It is the rare stamp that all of six kinds was unified with a sea horse. Six kinds of freshwater fish protection stamps were issued in 2001 year.

Democratic Republic of Vietnam
1967.7.25 Fish Stamp
Filamentosus Saury
Saurida filamentosa
(Synodontidae)
Spanish Mackerel
Scomberomorus niphonius
(Scombridae)
Belted Beard Grunt
Hapalogenys mucronatus
(Haemulidae)
Red Collared Emperor
Lethrinus haematopterus
(Lethrinidae)
Black Pomfret
Parastromateus niger
(Carangidae)
Saddle-Tailed Sea-Perch
Lutjanus erythropterus
(Lutjanidae)


Socialist Republic of Vietnam
1980.8.1 Selachain Stamp
Whale Shark
Rhincodon typus
(Rhincodontidae)
Tiger Shark
Galeocerdo cuvieri
(Carcharhinidae)
Japanese Wobbegong
Orectolobus japonicus
(Orectolobidae)
Zebra Bullhead Shark
Heterodontus zebra
(Heterodontidae)
Honeycomb Stingray
Dasyatis uarnak
(Dasyatidae)
Largetooth Sawfish
Pristis microdon
(Pristidae)
Scalloped Hammerhead
Sphyrna lewini
(Sphyrnidae)
Japanese Eagle Ray
Myliobatis tobijei
(Myliobatididae)


1984.6.25 Fish Stamp
Flyingfish
Cypselurus spilopterus
(Exocoetidae)
Longhorn Cowfish
Ostracion cornutus
(Ostraciidae)
Spot-fin Porcupinefish
Diodon hystrise
(Diodontidae)
Copperband Butterflyfish
Chelmon rostratus
(Chaetodontidae)
Deep Sea Anglerfish
Linophryne arborifera
(Linophrynidae)
Russell's Lionfish
Pterois russelli
(Scorpaenidae)
Ocean Sunfish
Mola mola
(Molidae)
Lionfish
Pterois lunulata
(Scorpaenidae)


1994.6.1 Crocodile Stamp
Saltwater Crocodile
Crocodylus porosus
(Crocodylidae)
American Alligator
Alligator mississippiensis
(Alligatoridae)
Nile Crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus
(Crocodylidae)
Chinese Alligator
Alligator sinensis
(Alligatoridae)
Paraguay Spectacled Caiman
Caimen crocodilus yacare
(Alligatoridae)
Freshwater Crocodile
Crocodylus johnsoni
(Crocodylidae)


1997.9.4 Seahorse Stamp
Short-snouted Seahorse
Hippocampus hippocampus
(Syngnathidae)
Short-snouted Seahorse
Hippocampus hippocampus
(Syngnathidae)
Long-snouted Seahorse
Hippocampus guttulatus
(Syngnathidae)
Great Seahorse
Hippocampus kolloggi
(Syngnathidae)
Japanese Seahorse
Hippocampus japonicus
(Syngnathidae)
Short-snouted Seahorse
Hippocampus hippocampus
(Syngnathidae)


2001.1.18 Freshwater Fish Protection Stamp
Archerfish
Toxotes microlepis
(Toxotidae)
Carp
Cosmochilus harmandi
(Cyprinidae)
Indonesian Shortfin Eel
Anguilla bicolor
(Anguillidae)
Clown knifefish
Chitala chitala
(Notopteridae)
Indo-Pacific Tarpon
Megalops cyprinoides
(Megalopidae)
Jullien's Golden Carp
Probarbus jullieni
(Cyprinidae)


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