Fishing for Banded jawfish

Opistognathus macrognathus

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

Water type

Saltwater

IUCN Status

Least concern

Threat to humans

Harmless

Source: Fishbase

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Broward County Coast

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