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==References==
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* {{FishBase family | family = Serrivomeridae | month = January | year = 2006}}
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Sawtooth eels
Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii. From plate 47 of Oceanic Ichthyology by G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean, published 1896.
Scientific classification
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Serrivomeridae
Genera

Serrivomer
Stemonidium
See text for species.

Sawtooth eels are a family, Serrivomeridae, of eels. They get their name from the saw-like arrangement of their vomerine teeth (inward-slanting teeth attached to the vomer bone in the roof of the mouth).

There are eleven species in two genera:

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