Sawtooth eel
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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. | |
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| 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
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.