Redheaded Jawfish identification

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Joya

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I've only known of one other person to own one of these (someone who posted about it on Reef Central), but by some stroke of luck we saw one at one of our favorite LFS yesterday and had to get him before someone else did...

A Redheaded Jawfish :D

I did an Internet search to try to find any pictures of the little guy and the closest I could come up with was the Chestnut Jawfish, but I couldn't find any Latin name for him apart from the general Opistognathus family. I think it might be this one, but I'm not sure. There are over 60 types of jawfish that have been identified and have species names but unfortunately I haven't found a site online that has photos of them all.

Any ideas?

He will be living in our 90g on the other end of the tank from our Bluespot...
 

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