2013Fauna: Species from Romania - Set

The alpine marmot (Marmota marmota), illustrated on the stamp with the face value of lei 3.30, is the world’s largest species of rodents from Sciuridae family. It lives in the mountain areas from Central and Southern Europe, at altitudes between 800 and 3200 m, being mainly found in the Alps, the Carpathians, the Tatras and the Pyrenees.