The banded jawfish is a small marine fish with an elongated, tapering body, a large head, and an oversized mouth. Mottled brown with darker bands, it blends into sandy and rubble reef bottoms of the western Atlantic. It grows to roughly 8 inches. It lives in a self-dug burrow, hovering nearby and darting back tail-first when threatened. This summary was AI generated
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IUCN Status
Threat to humans
Source: Fishbase
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