The Samoa sawtooth eel, ''Serrivomer samoensis'', is a

sawtooth eel 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 ...

of the

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Serrivomer ''Serrivomer'' is a genus 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 Oceans. The smallest species in this genus is ''Serr ...

'', found in the southwest

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at depths between 500 and 2,000 m. Their length is up to 75 cm.

References

* * * Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) {{DEFAULTSORT:eel, sawtooth, Samoa Samoa sawtooth eel Fauna of Samoa Samoa sawtooth eel