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Marine Life (2001)
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Issue
Name: |
Marine Life |
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Thai Issue
Name: |
ชีวิตใต้ทะเล |
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Issue Date: |
2001/2544-03-15 |
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Cause: |
To publicize Thai marine life,
encourage marine conservation, and to promote stamp
collecting |
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Catalogue Number: |
2001/6-14 |
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Denomination: |
3 Baht (designs 1, 3, 5, 6, 8
and 9); 6 Baht (designs 2, 4 and 7) |
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Unused Value: |
n/a |
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Used Value: |
n/a |
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Complete set: |
50 Baht (unused); n/a (used) |
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Thailex Collection: |
Unused set |
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Size: |
24 x
29 mm for designs 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9;
58 x 24 mm for designs 2 and 4; and 24 x 48 for design 7 |
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Quantity
of Stamps: |
1,000,000 pieces per design |
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Printer: |
The House of Questa Limited,
England |
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Subject: |
Thai marine life near a coral
reef: 1. a Manta Ray or Sea Devil (Manta birostris); 2.
Moorish Idols (Zanclus
cornutus); 3.
Oriental Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus)
and a
sea jelly; 4.
corals, a
Powderblue Surgeonfish
(Acanthurus leucosternon)
and a
Spiny Balloonfish
(Diodon holocanthus); 5.
a
Hawksbill Sea Turtle
(Eretmochelys imbricata); 6.
a
Common Lionfish or Devil Firefish (Pterois miles); 7.
Brain Coral (fig.),
Sea Anemones, a Royal Angelfish
(Pygoplites
diacanthus) and a
Leopard Shark
(Stegostoma fasciatum); 8. a juvenile
Emperor Angelfish
(Pomacanthus imperator), a yellowish golden reef fish, and soft and hard corals;
9. sea fan feather-like coral and the orangey head of
a juvenile Green Moray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris) |
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Related Link: |
Moorish Idol,
Powderblue Surgeonfish,
Oriental Sweetlips,
Hawksbill Sea Turtle,
Common Lionfish,
Sea Anemones,
Leopard Shark,
Emperor Angelfish,
sea jelly,
maeng kaphrun,
Spiny Balloonfish,
World under the Sea,
Anemone Fish,
Visit ASEAN Year,
Corals,
Brain Coral,
pa-kahrang,
Preserved Wild Animals - Marine Life,
Marine Turtles |
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