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Title: Jawfish Aerates Eggs, Cayman Islands
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A male yellowhead jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) rises up from its burrow and spits out the eggs he is mouthbrooding, in order to aerate them. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- British West Indies
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman
- Cayman Islands
- coral reef
- East End
- eggs
- Fishes
- Grand Cayman
- Jawfishes: Opistognathidae
- Marine Life
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- yellowhead jawfish: Opistognathus aurifrons
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