List of fish on stamps of Montserrat

This is a list of fish on stamps of Montserrat
Montserrat
Montserrat is a British overseas territory located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands called the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies. This island measures approximately long and wide, giving of coastline...

Year	Date	Species	Species author	Value	Scott	Yvert	Michel	Sta. & Gib.	Order	Family	Common Name
Year	Date	Species	Species author	Value	Stamps catalogues				Taxonomy		Common Name
1969		Coryphaena hippurus	Linnaeus, 1758	5c	0	0	219	0	Perciformes Perciformes The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...	Coryphaenidae Coryphaenidae The Coryphaenidae are a family of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the Order Perciformes. The family contains only one genus, Coryphaena, which contains two species, both of which have compressed heads and single dorsal fins that run the entire length of the fish's bodies...	Common dolphinfish
		Istiophorus albicans	(Latreille, 1804)	15c	0	0	220	0	Perciformes Perciformes The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...	Istiophoridae	Atlantic sailfish
		Thunnus atlanticus	(Lesson, 1831)	25c	0	0	221	0	Perciformes Perciformes The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...	Scombridae Scombridae Scombridae is the family of the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos, and thus includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of about 55 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies...	Blackfin tuna
		Scomberomorus maculatus	(Mitchill, 1815)	40c	0	0	222	0	Perciformes Perciformes The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...	Scombridae Scombridae Scombridae is the family of the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos, and thus includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of about 55 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies...	Spanish mackerel
1978		Chaetodon capistratus	Linnaeus, 1758	30c	0	0	381	0	Perciformes Perciformes The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...	Chaetodontidae	Foureye butterflyfish Foureye butterflyfish The Four-eyed Butterflyfish is a butterflyfish . It is alternatively called the Foureye Butterflyfish. This species is found in the Western Atlantic from Massachusetts, USA and Bermuda to the West Indies and northern South America.Chaetodon capistratus is the type species of Chaetodon...
		Pomacanthus paru	(Bloch, 1787)	40c	0	0	382	0	Perciformes Perciformes The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...	Pomacanthidae	French angelfish
		Acanthurus coeruleus Acanthurus coeruleus Acanthurus coeruleus is a surgeonfish found commonly in the Atlantic Ocean.- Description :...	Bloch & Schneider, 1801	55c	0	0	383	0	Perciformes Perciformes The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...	Acanthuridae Acanthuridae Acanthuridae is the family of surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes. The family includes about 80 species in six genera, all of which are marine fish living in tropical seas, usually around coral reefs...	Blue tang surgeonfish
		Balistes vetula Balistes vetula Balistes vetula, also known as the queen triggerfish, is a reef dwelling fish of the Atlantic Ocean. It is occasionally caught as a gamefish, and sometimes kept in marine aquaria.-Appearance:...	Linnaeus, 1758	$1.50	0	0	384	0	Tetraodontiformes Tetraodontiformes The Tetraodontiformes are an order of highly derived ray-finned fish, also called the Plectognathi. Sometimes these are classified as a suborder of the Perciformes...	Balistidae	Queen triggerfish

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