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A philatelic error generally refers to a defect in the production of a postage stamp: wrong colors, failures in drilling or absence of this , pleated paper, etc.. Such errors are relatively rare and therefore this type of seals are costly mistakes. However, there is another type of error that is not so rare or so expensive. It is the design error. There are errors in spelling, geography, politics, history and the like.

Last March 18 was put into circulation an emission consists of two cards (16 stamps) with images of wildlife and landscapes of the Galapagos Islands.

A close examination reveals several errors, all in the texts, both common names and the names of the species represented.

1. The first obvious mistake is the lack of consistency in the naming of the animals, while some names you do with initial capitals, in other and entirely in lower case:

Masked Booby - blue-footed booby

Turtle - Land Iguana

2. shown on behalf of Penguin Galapagos Penguin should be, but what is striking is the scientific name wrong. reads Sphenisciformes , when this is the name (plural) assigned to order grouping all species of penguins. The correct name for this species is mendiculus Spheniscus.

3. In scientific name the blue-footed booby, Sula appears Nebouxi . According to the standard convention used for naming the different species of organisms, called binomial nomenclature, where the scientific name assigned to a species is formed by two names, genus and specific name. The first should always be written with initial capitalization and the second is written entirely in lowercase. In this case the error is obvious.

4. addition to the error mentioned, there is another, the correct name is Sula nebouxii Has been omitted from the final two ies.

5. The only fish that is part of this issue has several errors. The most obvious is the omission of the letter h initial by giving the name of the pen Alcon nosed when the correct way to write the name of this fish coral reef is Hawk proboscis. The second mistake is to put an extra letter word ere coral rendered meaningless name of the fish.

6. In the second card, the scientific name for sea lion shows two errors. The correct name is Zalophus wollebaeki when is written as Zaluphus wolleb AEKI.

7. The same mistakes in the name are present in the adjacent seal.

8. Two stamps feature a unique rock formation in Darwin Island, known as the Arch Darwin, but omitting the grammatical rule of using capital letters in names was written Darwin arc .

We can only recommend to the post of Ecuador in each issue under the topic, it makes a design review by experts in each area.

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