Sawtooth eel

Sawtooth eel

Taxobox
name = Sawtooth eels


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Bean's Sawtooth Eel, "Serrivomer beanii". From plate 47 of "Oceanic Ichthyology" by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean, published 1896.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Anguilliformes
familia = Serrivomeridae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "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:
* Genus "Serrivomer"
** Bean's sawtooth eel, "Serrivomer beanii" Gill & Ryder, 1883.
** Thread eel, "Serrivomer bertini" Bauchot, 1959.
** Black sawtooth eel, "Serrivomer brevidentatus" (Roule & Bertin, 1929).
** "Serrivomer danae" (Roule & Bertin, 1924).
** "Serrivomer garmani" Bertin, 1944.
** Crossthroat sawpalate, "Serrivomer jesperseni" Bauchot-Boutin, 1953.
** Short-tooth sawpalate, "Serrivomer lanceolatoides" (Schmidt, 1916).
** Samoa sawtooth eel, "Serrivomer samoensis" Bauchot, 1959.
** "Serrivomer schmidti" Bauchot-Boutin, 1953.
** "Serrivomer sector" Garman, 1899.
* Genus "Stemonidium"
** "Stemonidium hypomelas" Gilbert, 1905.

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