🐠Yellowhead jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) are expert burrow builders, 🧬adapting perfectly to sandy reef habitats. Males take family care to the next level, mouthbrooding eggs until they hatch. Their sedentary lifestyle leads to localized populations with unique traits. 🪸🌊🦑🌎
📸: Mike Miller

Yellowhead Jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) in Bonaire
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Yellowhead Jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) carry their eggs in their mouths until they hatch! 👁️👄👁️

📷 melodie_caussat on iNaturalist
📍 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba
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A jawfish, cautiously peering out of its burrow in Anilao. This is far and away the most common way to see them; they tend to be rather shy. I think this one is a yellowbarred jawfish (Opistognathus randalli).

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i love when marine biologists see a fish or whatever and freak out like, "THERE SHE IS!! MY GIRL!!!" and its this

Happy Father’s Day from the Gold-specs jawfish (Opistognathus randalli) The males carry the eggs in their mouth to protect offspring from predators. To attract females, male jawfish do a “dance” and at the crescendo the males open their mouths wide to boast their mouthbrooding potential! That's LOVE

Bocón Cabeza Amarilla (Opistognathus aurifrons), preocupación menor.

Son un grupo de peces raros que viven en arrecifes. Viven bajo tierra, por suerte era hora de comer.

That's quite the fish!

Congratulations to #DeJongAquaculture on the first #captivebreeding success with the #BlueSpottedJawfish, #Opistognathus rosenblatti! coralmagazine.com/2025/01/29/c...

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One more SNEAK PEEK at the JAW-DROPPING #JAWFISHES issue, May/June 2025. TODAY, April 14th, is the LAST DAY to become a print subscriber and start with this issue of #CORALmagazine! DO IT NOW! - www.coralmagazine.com/subscribe

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Ein Pärchen Brunnenbauer (Opistognathus aurifrons) und ein Kardinalbarsch (Pterapogon kauderni). Heute gesehen bei Bekannten im Becken.
Spannend zu beobachten, total süß.

#FishADay Opistognathus aurifrons Yellowhead Jawfish. Caribbean Reef Dweller. Doesn't just use its mouth for eating--both sexes excavate burrows in sand and males brood young with their mouths.

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Jawfish are small to moderately sized fish well known for their moth-brooding behavior, in which parents carry their sticky egg mass in their mouth until hatching. A new species joins their ranks: Opistognathus cryos from the Peng-hu Islands, Taiwan doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#NewSpeciesAlert - Review of Indo-West Pacific #jawfishes (#Opistognathus: #Opistognathidae), with descriptions of 18 #NewSpecies.
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Quand t'en as jusque là d'être un papa!
(Il s'agit du poisson "tout en gueule" Opistognathus aurifrons https://buff.ly/2tHIbes
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Photo Lindsey Dougherty