Sunday, March 6, 2016

Set of postage stamps "Fishes" (Burundi) Part.2

  Tilapia melanopleura, the Redbelly tilapia, Tilapia zillii, is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. It is found widely in numerous African and Eurasian countries, both as aquarium fish and food fish.
  The leopard bush fish (Ctenopoma acutirostre), also known as leopard bushfish, spotted ctenopoma, leopard ctenopoma, spotted climbing perch, spotted leaf fish, African leaf fish, spotted cichlid or spotted bushfish, is a freshwater fish.
  Aphyosemion bivittatum (twostripe lyretail, two-banded killi, red lyretail) is a species of freshwater fish belonging to the Nothobranchiidae family. It is found in rivers in southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon.
  Synodontis angelicus is a species of upside-down catfish commonly named polka-dot African catfish or angel squeaker. This species is native to the Congo Basin of Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo.
  Monodactylus argentus, a perciform fish in the Monodactylidae family, is usually found in the Red Sea and East Africa to Samoa, north to the Yaeyama Islands, south to New Caledonia and Australia.
  The Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus), is a marine fish species, the sole extant representative of the family Zanclidae (from the Greek ζαγκίος, zagkios, "oblique") in order Perciformes.
  The royal angelfish or regal angelfish, Pygoplites diacanthus, is a species of marine angelfish of the family Pomacanthidae, and the monotypic genus Pygoplites. It is found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceans.
  Cephalopholis argus, also known as: roi, bluespotted grouper, argus grouper, peacock hind, peacock grouper or peacock rockcod is a fish from the Indo-Pacific which is variously a commercial gamefish, an invasive species and occasionally an aquarium resident.
  • Series: Fishes
  • Country: Republic of Burundi
  • Year: 1974
  • Emission: Commemorative, Air mail
  • Perforation: line 13½
  • Printing: Photogravure
  • Size: 70 x 70 mm
  • Face value: 3, 17, 5, 24 Burundi francs 
  • Number of catalogue Michel: BI 1042-1049, BI 1093-1100