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
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

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The 11 species are found in these two genera:[2]

Family Serrivomeridae

* Genus Serrivomer
* Genus Stemonidium

## References

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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, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Serrivomeridae" in FishBase. January 2011 version.

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Eels

* Kingdom: Animalia
* Phylum: Chordata
* Subphylum: Vertebrata
* Class: Actinopterygii
* Superorder: Elopomorpha

Families by suborder|

| Protanguilloidei|

* Protanguillidae

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Synaphobranchoidei|

* Synaphobranchidae (Cutthroat eels)

Muraenoidei|

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

Chlopsoidei|

* Chlopsidae (False morays)

Congroidei|

* Congridae (Congers)
* 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)

| 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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