Friday, February 12, 2016

Acipenser baeri (Mongolian postage stamp)

  The Siberian sturgeon (Acipenser baerii) is a species of sturgeon in the Acipenseridae family. It is most present in all of the major Siberian river basins that drain northward into the Kara, Laptev and East Siberian Seas, including the Ob, Yenisei (which drains Lake Baikal via the Angara River) Lena, and Kolyma Rivers. It is also found in Kazakhstan and China in the Irtysh River, a major tributary of the Ob. The species epithet honors the German Russian biologist Karl Ernst von Baer.
  • Series: Fish
  • Country: Mongolia
  • Year: 1965-11-25
  • Emission: Commemorative
  • Perforation: comb 11
  • Printing: Photogravure
  • Size: 43 x 43 mm
  • Face value: 15 Mongolian möngö 
  • Number of catalogue Michel: MN 400