- Sawtooth eel
Taxobox
name = Sawtooth eels
image_width = 240px
image_caption =Bean's Sawtooth Eel , "Serrivomer beanii". From plate 47 of "Oceanic Ichthyology" byGeorge Brown Goode andTarleton 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, ofeel s. They get their name from the saw-like arrangement of theirvomerine teeth (inward-slanting teeth attached to thevomer 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.References
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