7th Definitive - 90c Longnose Butterfly Fish
 
Date of Issue
November 15, 2000
Denomination
90 cents
Art Work
Chris Van Rooyen, Joan Van Gogh
Designer
Thea Swanepoel
Size
24 x 40.6mm
Sheet
50
Perforation
13.25 x 13.75
Perforator
Bickel comb
Paper
De La Rue
Gum
PVA
Phosphor
7% Green/yellow in paper coating
Printing Process
superlitho
Printer
The House of Questa, London
Initial Quantity
48,500
 
Longnose butterfly fish (forcipiger flavissimus) -  Belongs to the family Chaetoddontidae and to the subfamily of butterfly fish. Most widely distributed species of butterfly fish, extending from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal to the Red Sea, across the Indian and tropical Pacific Oceans to Easter Island and Baja, California. They reach a length of about 16 cm
                     
Original information and image from South Africa Post