2013, August 8. Deep-Sea Shrimps of the Philippines
Litho Offset, Amstar Company, Inc., Perf 14
Se-tenant Blocks of 4, Miniature Sheets of 16; Souvenir Sheets of 4
Se-tenant Blocks of Four (30,000)
10p Banded Deep-Sea Spiny Shrimp
10p Deep-Sea Shrimp
10p Huxley's Scissor-Foot Shrimp
10p Deep-Sea Armored Shrimp
Miniature Sheets of 16 (7,500)
40p Souvenir Sheets of Four (5,000)
Layout Artists: Victorino Z. Serevo, Jose Antonio A. Jayme
Designers/Artists:
Joey Cenina (Banded Deep-Sea Spiny Shrimp; I. Egai (Deep-Sea Shrimp)
R.E. Alcantara, Jr. (Huxley's Scissor-Foot Shrimp); Thomas Paul Edison Cañas (Deep-Sea Armored Shrimp)
Source / Reference: National Museum of the Philippines, Marivene Manuel – Santos, Curator I of Zoology Division and Crustacean Specialist, in coordination with Dr. Tin – Yam Chan of Taiwan Ocean University.
First Day Covers: Manila
DEEP-SEA SHRIMPS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Banded Deep-Sea Spiny Shrimp (Stenopus goyi). Has unique red bands and red patches on translucent white body with the female bearing green eggs. Its body is thickly covered with spines of different sizes. Its head or carapace has strong short spine near the anterior margin of the carapace ventral to antennal spine. Its rostrum armed with 2 – 4 teeth near the distal part. Its waking legs have simple dactyli or claws except for the right 5th leg which has 2 - 3 claws (biunguiculate or triunguiculate). This species was trawled by beam trawl at depths ranging from 68 meters to 72 meters off Panglao Island, Bohol.
Deep-Sea Shrimp (Stylodactylus multidentatus multidentatus). Body large and stout which measures about 50 mm to 71 mm, with rostrum horizontally directed, long, with 27 to 41 movable dorsal teeth and 12 to 19 movable ventral teeth. Dorsal margin of carapace has 11 to 13 movable post-rostral teeth. Abdominal pleura round. Margin of telson or tail without median spine. Whole body is pink red with perceptible red stripes which runs from the tip of rostrum along dorsal portion of carapace. Sand bottom, bathypelagic, mesopelagic, continental rise, continental slope species. Beam trawled and trapped from depth range of 152 meters to 366 meters. Recorded off Panglao Island, Bohol and Verde Island Passage.
Huxley’s Scissor-Foot Shrimp (Psalidopus huxleyi). have scattered spines of various lengths from head to tail. Rostrum armed with 9 to 15 dorsal spines and 7 to 16 ventral spines. The claw on the first walking legs is crossed like scissors. Beam trawled and trapped from depth range of 530 meters to 1,163 meters. Recorded off Panglao Island, Bohol and Verde Island Passage; Off San Bernardino Strait; Palawan Passage and Sulu Sea off Cagayan Islands.
Deep-Sea Armored Shrimp (Glyphocrangon proxima). Body is stout with firm covering, rostrum obviously upturned on distal half. In life, the body is generally translucent white, with the rostrum reddish in distal half and white on the part near the body. Its pleopods or swimmerets have single series of segments attached end-to-end. This species was beam trawled off Aurora Province and in the Verde Island Passage at depths ranging from 562 meters to 809 meters.
On Souvenir Sheet but not as a stamp:
Rock Shrimp (Sicyonia parajaponica). Body is stout with hard covering, with scattered large brown tubercles. Abdomen marked by deep grooves and furrows. Rostrum up to the edge of the dorsal margin has 9 dorsal and 2 ventral teeth. First and second abdominal segments have a spiky and prominent ridgelike structure on the middle part. Pleopods or swimmerets have single series of segments attached end-to-end (uniramous). This species was beam trawled off Panglao Island, Bohol and in the Verde Island Passage at depths ranging from 122 meters to 127 meters.
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Shrimps
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Marine Life