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.