Serrivomeridae

short-tooth sawpalate

Serrivomer lanceolatoides

Serrivomerid Fish from the Atlantic Ocean

• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Africa
• North America
• Anguilliform
• Large

The short-tooth sawpalate (Serrivomer lanceolatoides, also known commonly as the black sawtoothed eel) is an eel in the family Serrivomeridae (sawtooth eels). It was described by Johannes Schmidt in 1916 in its larval form, originally under the genus Leptocephalus, and later as a subspecies of Serrivomer sector by Roule & Bertin in 1929. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the eastern central and western central Atlantic Ocean, including the Strait of Gibraltar, Cape Verde, the United States, the Bahamas and Bermuda, as well as the Strait of Gibraltar, Cape Verde, Canada and the United States.