Resources
And Sources Used
Resources
And Sources Used
The information contained in the Animals on Stamps Databases can be found in a variety of places.
Scroll through the resources listed below to enhance your knowledge of philately and our natural world. Most of these resources have been utilized to create the databases you have access to.
General Resources
Scott Catalogue
The information in the Animals On Stamps Database(s) has been based upon this catalogue.
The Database contains only those listings contained in the Scott Catalogue. If Scott doesn’t list it, neither do we. Occasionally you may find listings that are ‘noted’ after an issue in the Scott Catalogue – these do not have a Scott number.
American Topical Association
The American Topical Association (ATA) is an organization devoted exclusively to Topical Collecting.
Within the ATA is the Biology Unit. These folks specialize in anything biological on stamps and provide excellent information to members. You can find them here.
We highly recommend becoming a member of the ATA.
Stampworld.Com
Stampworld is an online stamp catalogue that lists stamps of the world with images.
Many of the photos found on this site were used with permission from Stamp World.
The site is easy to naviagate by country. It does not use the Scott Catalogue identification system.
Biology Taxonomy and Identification Resources
Catalogue Of Life
The Catalogue of Life is a comprehensive listing of all species and their taxonomic hierarchy.
Their goal is to list all known organisms regardless of distribution.
This site was used for all categories of species and was extremely useful in determining the current taxonomy for each species.
WORMS
WORMS is a self described: “authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names.”
This site was used to classify and appropriately list species from marine habitats.
Google & Wikipedia
These resources were used primarily to determine a Common Name if there was not one listed in English, or which was the most popular of many common names to use.
Specific Resources By Category
Amphibians & Reptiles
An older site that is no longer active that focused on stamps with amphibians & reptiles. Very comprehensive with excellent identification. Accessed via web archive
A delightful french site with everything frogs.
This is a long standing website, excellent info regarding turtles on stamps
This site focuses on Reptiles and Amphibians on Stamps with an emphasis on Oceana.
Mammals (Domestic and Wild)
This is one of the great resources available from the ATA.
A complete listing of Mammals on Stamps. The focus is on realistic depictions of wild mammals.
Fish
These German books contain biological taxonomy and issue dates for Fish around the world.
This is one of the great resources available from the ATA.
Invertebrates
Insects and Invertebrates on Stamps, 1979, ATA Handbook 98
An excellent pdf that lists crustaceans on stamps in English. Access from this site, but make sure your google translate is turned on!
Microbiology
This site dedicated to all things Diatoms, has a page dedicated to diatoms on stamps!
This downloadable pdf from Research Gate lists Macro Algae on Stamps.
This downloadable pdf from Research Gate lists Macro Algae on Stamps.
Aidsonstamps.com lists all stamps that are in some way connected to AIDS. Includes stamps that do not have the actual virus on them.
COVID – 19 An Incomplete Philatelic Catalogue Part 1 lists stamps related to the virus. Includes those stamps that don’t have an image of the virus on them.
Birds
You may notice that we don’t list bird stamps on our site. That’s because we found that birdtheme.org already does a fantastic job.
Their identification appears top notch, and the listings seem complete.
Do you have or know of another resource? We are always on the hunt for more information.
If you have a comprehensive listing of your own, let us know.
We are willing to make a trade depending on quantity or quality of data.
We are also willing to provide a discount on a database depending upon the information you share.