The Gallery

The Stamp Collection

Some stamps from Tanzania.

The crab in the top left of the picture is the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis). This is an alien species that has entered the British ecosystem and can be found in the Thames.

A group at the Natural History Museum in London are carrying out research on the life cycle of this crab and are interested in any sightings.

A Fiddler Crab and Coral Crab from Australia

Australia not only has the Great Barrier Reef but also one of the best places to see land crabs, Christmas Island, where the famous Red Crab, Gecarcoidea natalis, migration takes place.

Red Crabs are not the only land crabs found on this remote island in the Indian Ocean, as seen in the following stamps.

The largest crab present on Christmas Island is the Robber or Coconut Crab, Birgus latro, related to the Hermit crabs, and seen in these stamps from Niue.

Finally we have 'The Crab That Played With the Sea' one of the Royal Mails stamps from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.