Serrivomer is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of deep-sea eel in the family Serrivomeridae. It contains ten described species. Member species are distributed widely, being found in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

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The smallest species in this genus is Serrivomer jesperseni, which has a maximum length of 40.6 cm; the largest species in this genus is Serrivomer beanii with a maximum length of 78 cm. Most members reach a maximum length of 60–70 cm,

Species

• Serrivomer beanii Gill
  Theodore Gill
  Theodore Nicholas Gill was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian.Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J...
  
   & Ryder, 1883 (Bean's sawtooth eel)
• Serrivomer bertini Bauchot, 1959 (Thread eel)
• Serrivomer brevidentatus (Roule & Bertin, 1929) (Black sawtooth eel)
• Serrivomer danae (Roule & Bertin, 1924)
• Serrivomer garmani Bertin, 1944
• Serrivomer jesperseni Bauchot-Boutin, 1953 (Crossthroat sawpalate)
• Serrivomer lanceolatoides (E. J. Schmidt
  Johannes Schmidt (biologist)
  Johannes Schmidt was a Danish biologist credited with discovering in 1920 that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn...
  
  , 1916) (Short-tooth sawpalate)
• Serrivomer samoensis Bauchot, 1959 (Samoa sawtooth eel)
• Serrivomer schmidti Bauchot-Boutin, 1953
• Serrivomer sector Garman, 1899