stout sawpalate

Serrivomer beanii

Serrivomerid Fish from the Indian Ocean

Transcontinental
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Europe
Oceania
Anguilliform
Large

The Bean's sawtooth eel (Serrivomer beanii, also known commonly as the longfin sawpalate, the saw-tooth snipe eel, the sawtooth eel, the shortnosed snipe eel, and the stout sawpalate) is an eel in the family Serrivomeridae (sawtooth eels). It was described by Theodore Gill and John Adam Ryder in 1883. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from throughout the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Western Pacific Ocean, including Iceland, South Africa (the Cape and Natal), Réunion, and Australia.

Class: Teleosts
Order: True Eels
Family: Serrivomeridae
Genus: Serrivomer
Maximum length: 78 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Atlantic Ocean: on both sides, between 60°N and 20°S (Ref. 5237 ); in the eastern Atlantic, reported to range further north to Iceland (Ref. 12462 ) and further south to off the Cape and Natal in South Africa (Ref. 5236 ). Indian Ocean: Reunion (Ref. 33390 ). Western Pacific: Australia (Ref. 7300 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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