Sawtooth eels are a family, Serrivomeridae, of eels found in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.
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| Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii. From plate 47 of Oceanic Ichthyology by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean, published 1896. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Suborder: | Anguilloidei |
| Family: | Serrivomeridae Trewavas, 1932[1] |
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Sawtooth eels get their name from the human-like arrangement of inward-slanting teeth attached to the vomer bone in the roof of the mouth. They are deepwater pelagic fish.[2]
Species
editThe 11 species are found in these two genera:[3]
Family Serrivomeridae
- Genus Serrivomer T. N. Gill & Ryder, 1883
- Genus Stemonidium C. H. Gilbert, 1905
References
edit- ^ Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ McCosker, John F. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 90. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Serrivomeridae". FishBase. January 2011 version.
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