sawtooth eel

{{Short description|Family of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Sawtooth eels

| image = Serrivomer beanii.jpg

| image_caption = Bean's Sawtooth Eel, Serrivomer beanii.
From plate 47 of Oceanic Ichthyology by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean, published 1896.

| taxon = Serrivomeridae

| authority = Trewavas, 1932{{cite journal |last1=Van Der Laan |first1=Richard |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=William N. |last3=Fricke |first3=Ronald |title=Family-group names of Recent fishes |journal=Zootaxa |date=11 November 2014 |volume=3882 |issue=1 |pages=1–230 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 |pmid=25543675 |doi-access=free |url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.3882.1.1/33563 }}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text

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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.{{cite book |editor=Paxton, J.R. |editor2=Eschmeyer, W.N.|author= McCosker, John F.|year=1998|title=Encyclopedia of Fishes|publisher= Academic Press|location=San Diego|page= 90|isbn= 0-12-547665-5}}