Sawtooth eel

Sawtooth eels
	Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii.; From plate 47 of Oceanic Ichthyology by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean, published 1896.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Suborder:	Anguilloidei
Family:	Serrivomeridae
Genera
	See text

Sawtooth eels are a family, Serrivomeridae, of eels found in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.

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.^[1]

Species

The 11 species are found in these two genera:^[2]

Family Serrivomeridae

Genus Serrivomer
Genus Stemonidium

References

^ 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, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Serrivomeridae" in FishBase. January 2011 version.

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[EoF-1] 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.

[FB-2] Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Serrivomeridae" in FishBase. January 2011 version.

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Sawtooth eels

Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii. From plate 47 of Oceanic Ichthyology by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean, published 1896.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Anguilliformes
Suborder:	Anguilloidei
Family:	Serrivomeridae
Genera
See text