Publisher ID:
236
Our code:
MC-HR-HPT-1997-04-22-3/1
Country:
Publisher:
Croatian Post and Telecommunications
Design:
Ivica Belinić
Printing:
AKD d.o.o.
Stamp value:
1,40 HRK
Date of stamp issue:
Cancelled:
Theme:
Fauna of Croatia
In the member's collection
Pinna nobilis, whose common name is the noble pen shell or fan mussel, is a large species of Mediterranean clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pinnidae, the pen shells.
It reaches up to 120 cm (4 ft) of shell length. It produces a rare manganese-containing porphyrin protein known as pinnaglobin.