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Title: Mouthbrooding Jawfish, Cayman Islands
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A male yellowhead jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons) rises up from its burrow and aerates the eggs he is mouthbrooding. East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea.
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- British West Indies
- Caribbean Sea
- Cayman Islands
- East End
- eggs
- Fishes
- Grand Cayman
- Jawfishes: Opistognathidae
- Marine Life
- reproduction
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- yellowhead jawfish: Opistognathus aurifrons
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