Coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma Coronatum)

  The coast horned lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum) is a species of phrynosomatid lizard which can be found from Baja California north to California's Sacramento Valley. It is a widely divergent species with over 6 subspecies in their relatively small range. As a defense the lizard can shoot high pressure streams of blood out of its eyes if threatened.

• Original Name: "Phrynosoma Coronatum"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 1 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 886

Iguana (Cyclura macleayi)

  In 1938, Bernard C. Lewis of the Institute of Jamaica joined an Oxford University biological expedition to the Cayman Islands. Lewis was able to obtain two blue iguanas, a male and a female, which were later lodged with the British Museum of Natural History. Chapman Grant, in a monograph published in 1940, formally described the blue iguana for the first time as Cyclura macleayi lewisi. Schwartz and Carey established the trinomial (Cyclura nubila lewisi ) in 1977. They held that the blue iguana was a strongly distinct subspecies of the Cuban iguana (C. nubila), the species which it evolved from and can breed with. They emphasized its overall bright blue coloration, and noted that further study could reveal it to be a distinct species. Frederick Burton reclassified the blue iguana as a distinct species in 2004, after years of research comparing scale counts on the heads of Caribbean iguanas, including those found on Little Cayman, Cayman Brac, Cuba, and the Bahamas, as well as mitochondrial DNA analysis performed by Dr. Catherine Malone, to re-examine the phylogeography of the different species.

• Original Name: "Cyclura macleayi"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 0.80 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 885

Agamid lizard (Uromastyx acanthinuros)

  Uromastyx is a genus of African and Asian agamid lizards, the member species of which are commonly called spiny-tailed lizards, uromastyces, mastigures, or dabb lizards. Lizards in the genus Uromastyx are primarily herbivorous, but occasionally eat insects, especially young lizards. They spend most of their waking hours basking in the sun, hiding in underground chambers at daytime or when danger appears. They tend to establish themselves in hilly, rocky areas with good shelter and accessible vegetation.

• Original Name: "Uromastyx acanthinuros"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 0.50 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 884

Aldabra giant tortoise (Testudo gigantea)

  The Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea), from the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, is one of the largest tortoises in the world. Historically, giant tortoises were on many of the western Indian Ocean islands, as well as Madagascar, and the fossil record indicates giant tortoises once occurred on every continent and many islands with the exception of Australia and Antarctica. Many of the Indian Ocean species were thought to be driven to extinction by over-exploitation by European sailors, and they were all seemingly extinct by 1840 with the exception of the Aldabran giant tortoise on the island atoll of Aldabra. Although some remnant individuals of A. g. hololissa and A. g. arnoldi may remain in captivity, in recent times, these have all been reduced as subspecies of A. g. gigantea.

• Original Name: "Testudo gigantea"
• Series: Reptiles
• Country: Cambodia (R.P. Kampuchea)
• Year: 1987-09-09
• Subject: Animals
• Perforation: comb 12¾
• Printing: offset lithography
• Face value: 0.20 riel
• Number of catalogue Michel: KH 883

The Siberian Tiger

  The Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur tiger, is a tiger subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region with a small population in southwest Primorye Province in the Russian Far East. In 2005, there were 331–393 adult and subadult Amur tigers in this region, with a breeding adult population of about 250 individuals. The population had been stable for more than a decade due to intensive conservation efforts, but partial surveys conducted after 2005 indicate that the Russian tiger population was declining. By 2015, the Siberian tiger population has increased to 480–540 individuals in the Russian Far East, including 100 cubs. A more detailed census revealed a total population of 562 wild Siberian tigers in Russia.

• Original Name: "Амурский тигр"
• Series: Fauna of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1977-12-16
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 30 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4685
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess

Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

  The walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) is a large flippered marine mammal with a discontinuous distribution about the North Pole in the Arctic Ocean and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere. The walrus is the only living species in the family Odobenidae and genus Odobenus. This species is subdivided into three subspecies:[3] the Atlantic walrus (O. r. rosmarus) which lives in the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific walrus (O. r. divergens) which lives in the Pacific Ocean, and O. r. laptevi, which lives in the Laptev Sea of the Arctic Ocean.

• Original Name: "Морж"
• Series: Fauna of USSR
• Country: USSR
• Year: 1977-12-16
• Subject: Animals
• Face value: 30 kop
• Number of catalogue Michel: SU 4684
• Printing: Photogravure and Recess