Sawtooth eel
Family of fishes
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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 ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Suborder: | Anguilloidei |
Family: | Serrivomeridae |
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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
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Eels
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Subphylum: Vertebrata
- Class: Actinopterygii
- Superorder: Elopomorpha
Protanguilloidei | |
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Synaphobranchoidei |
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Muraenoidei |
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Chlopsoidei |
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Congroidei |
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Moringuoidei |
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Saccopharyngoidei |
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Anguilloidei |
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![European conger eel](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Conger_conger_Gervais.jpg/140px-Conger_conger_Gervais.jpg)
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