{"id":7040,"date":"2018-04-12T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:00:18","slug":"norfolk-island-wrasses-australia-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=7040","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk Island Wrasses (Australia 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue date April 30, 2018:<br \/>\n<em>From Australia Post&#8217;s Stamp Bulletin:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7045\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses.png 1024w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses-150x89.png 150w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses-500x295.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The reef at Emily Bay, Norfolk Island is a popular spot for snorkelling, due to its clear water and an abundance of fish species.<\/p>\n<p>The most predominant in terms of individual species are wrasses (Labridae) \u2013 a large and often brightly coloured family of fish that inhabit coral reefs and other temperate waters.<\/p>\n<p>As each wrasse species has differing colour patterns across male, female and (sometimes) juveniles, from 17 species in the reef there are almost 50 spectacular colour variations.<\/p>\n<p>The stamps in this issue, illustrated by renowned painter, naturalist and zoologist Roger Swainston, feature the vividly coloured adult male Surge Wrasse <em>(Thalassoma purpureum)<\/em> and the striking orange-red Luculent Wrasse <em>(Pseudolabrus luculentus)<\/em>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7043\" src=\"http:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses_detls-514x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses_detls-514x1024.png 514w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses_detls-75x150.png 75w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses_detls-150x300.png 150w, https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/aus_wrasses_detls.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue date April 30, 2018: From Australia Post&#8217;s Stamp Bulletin: The reef at Emily Bay, Norfolk Island is a popular spot for snorkelling, due to its clear water and an abundance of fish species. The most predominant in terms of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/?p=7040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualstampclub.com\/lloydblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}