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
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Anguilliformes
Suborder:  | Anguilloidei
Family:  | Serrivomeridae
Trewavas, 1932[1]
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.[2]

## Species

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The 11 species are found in these two genera:[3]

Family Serrivomeridae

* Genus Serrivomer T. N. Gill & Ryder, 1883
* Genus Stemonidium C. H. Gilbert, 1905

## References

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1. ^ Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230\. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.1-230&rft.date=2014-11-11&rft_id=info:doi/10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1&rft_id=info:pmid/25543675&rft.aulast=Van+Der+Laan&rft.aufirst=Richard&rft.au=Eschmeyer,+William+N.&rft.au=Fricke,+Ronald&rft_id=https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.3882.1.1/33563&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Sawtooth+eel" class="Z3988">
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Serrivomeridae". FishBase. January 2011 version.

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True eels (Anguilliformes)

* Kingdom: Animalia
* Phylum: Chordata
* Superclass: Osteichthyes
* Class: Actinopterygii
* Superorder: Elopomorpha

Families

* Chlopsidae (False morays)

Synaphobranchoidei|

* Protanguillidae (Primitive cave eels)
* Synaphobranchidae (Cutthroat eels)

Anguilloidei|

* Moringuidae (Spaghetti eels)
* Anguillidae (Freshwater eels)
* Nemichthyidae (Snipe eels)
* Serrivomeridae (Sawtooth eels)
* Cyematidae (Bobtail eels)
* Monognathidae (Onejaws)
* Neocyematidae (Orange bobtail eels)
* Eurypharyngidae (Pelican eels)
* Saccopharyngidae (Gulper eels)

Muraenoidei|

* Heterenchelyidae (Mud eels)
* Myrocongridae (Thin eels)
* Muraenidae (Moray eels)

Congroidei|

* Colocongridae (Shorttail eels)
* Derichthyidae (Longneck eels)
* Ophichthidae (Snake eels)
* Muraenesocidae (Pike congers)
* Nettastomatidae (Duckbill eels)
* Congridae (Congers & garden eels)

| As food|

* Eel (food)
* Anago
* Eel pie
* Jellied eels
* Kabayaki
* Eel noodles
* Unadon

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Related topics|

* Eel life history
* Eel ladder
* Ely Eel Day
* Eel pot
* Glass eels
* Leptocephalus (larvae)
* Abaia
* Eel cuddling
* Sina and the Eel
* Sniggle

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Taxon identifiers

Serrivomeridae|

* Wikidata: Q727168
* Wikispecies: Serrivomeridae
* ADW: Serrivomeridae
* AFD: Serrivomeridae
* BOLD: 33968
* CoL: G8V
* EoL: 8282
* GBIF: 2956
* iNaturalist: 86065
* IRMNG: 111366
* ITIS: 161603
* NBN: NHMSYS0000329053
* NCBI: 87098
* NZOR: 34a3e3dc-58e3-4d86-ab4b-e27626d4048e
* Open Tree of Life: 239745
* Paleobiology Database: 265735
* Plazi: AC642D14-3A45-FFC7-34F2-FCBADCEA2F07
* WoRMS: 125435

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