It was just over ten years ago that Hopkin’s Jawfish first hit our rare fish radar with its unique blend of blue and gold colors. Opistognathus hopkinsi comes from deep waters of the northwest Pacific Ocean so very little is…
Tantalizing New Video of Hopkin’s Jawfish
Hopkin’s Jawfish is a very rarely seen cold waters species hailing from the deeper waters of the Northwest Pacific Ocean. This basically means that you won’t see this fish outside of Japan, and today we feature a specimen on display…
Meet the sailfin jawfish, a little known deepwater caribbean beauty
Rabaulichthys anthias are not the only fish in the reefs to sport elaborate dorsal finnage. Check out the beast of a jawfish that is the sail-fin jawfish, this specimen being tentatively identified as Opistognathus lonchurus. Hailing from the Western Atlantic, the…
Opistognathus hopkinsi: first pictures of a live one from Japan
Opistognathus hopkinsi is a beautiful, coldwater jawfish which has never before been photographed alive. If you thought that the blue spot jawfish, Opistognathus rosenblatti, was the bee’s knees of burrowing, mouthy fish then you haven’t been introduced to Hopkin’s jawfish.…
