Sawtooth eel

Family of fishes

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 Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Anguilliformes
Suborder: Anguilloidei
Family: Serrivomeridae
Genera

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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

  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.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Serrivomeridae". FishBase. January 2011 version.
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Protanguilloidei
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  • Synaphobranchidae (Cutthroat eels)
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  • Muraenidae (Moray eels)
Chlopsoidei
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Congroidei
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  • Derichthyidae (Longneck eels)
  • Muraenesocidae (Pike congers)
  • Nettastomatidae (Duckbill eels)
  • Ophichthidae (Snake eels)
Moringuoidei
  • Moringuidae (Spaghetti eels)
Saccopharyngoidei
  • Eurypharyngidae (Pelican eels)
  • Saccopharyngidae (Gulper eels)
  • Monognathidae (Onejaws)
  • Cyematidae (Bobtail snipe eels)
Anguilloidei
  • Anguillidae (Freshwater eels)
  • Nemichthyidae (Snipe eels)
  • Serrivomeridae (Sawtooth eels)
European conger eel
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