Sawtooth eel
Appearance
Sawtooth eels | |
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Bean's Sawtooth Eel,Serrivomer beanii. From plate 47 ofOceanic IchthyologybyGeorge Brown GoodeandTarleton 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 eelsare a family,Serrivomeridae,ofeelsfound in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.
Sawtooth eels get their name from the human-like arrangement of inward-slanting teeth attached to thevomer bonein the roof of the mouth. They are deepwaterpelagic fish.[1]
Species
[edit]The 11 species are found in these two genera:[2]
FamilySerrivomeridae
- GenusSerrivomer
- GenusStemonidium
References
[edit]- ^McCosker, John F. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.).Encyclopedia of Fishes.San Diego: Academic Press. p. 90.ISBN0-12-547665-5.
- ^Froese, Rainer;Pauly, Daniel (eds.)."Family Serrivomeridae".FishBase.January 2011 version.