The thread eel (''Serrivomer bertini'', also known as the thread sawtooth eelCommon names of ''Serrivomer bertini''
at www.fishbase.org.) is an

eel Eels are ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes (), which consists of eight suborders, 20 families, 164 genera, and about 1000 species. Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage ...

in the family

Nemichthyidae Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera. They are pelagic fishes, found in every ocean, mostly at depths of but sometimes as deep as . Depending on the species, adults may reach in length, y ...

(snipe eels).''Serrivomer bertini''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

Marie-Louise Bauchot Marie-Louise Bauchot (born 1928) is a French ichthyologist and assistant manager of the National Museum of Natural History, France. Taxon described by her *See :Taxa named by Marie-Louise Bauchot Selected publications Status of Abudefduf sexfasc ...

in 1959.Bauchot, M.-L., 1959 ef. 15993''Étude des larves leptocéphales du groupe Leptocephalus lanceolatus Strömman et identification à la famille des Serrivomeridae.'' Dana Report No. 48: 1-148, Pls. 1-2. It is a marine,

temperate In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of the Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth. These zones generally have wider temperature ran ...

water-dwelling eel which is known from the Indo-Pacific and

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

in the southwestern

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

. It is known to dwell at a depth of .

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of

Léon Bertin Léon Bertin (8 April 1896, Paris – 5 February 1956, Saint-Amand-de-Vendôme) was a French zoologist. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, and died in the Loir-et-Cher Department of France, in a car accident. Biography ...

(1896-1954), of the

Muséum national d’histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

in Paris. Bauchot served as an assistant to him in 1952.

References

Nemichthyidae Taxa named by Marie-Louise Bauchot Fish described in 1959 {{Anguilliformes-stub