Crossthroat sawpalate

The crossthroat sawpalate is an eel in the family Nemichthyidae. It was described by Marie-Louise Bauchot in 1953. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling eel which is known from the western and eastern Pacific Ocean, including Papua New Guinea, British Columbia, Canada; the Gulf of Panama and Chile. It dwells at a maximum depth of. Males can reach a maximum total length of.
The species epithet "jesperseni" refers to P. Jespersen, a monographer of leptocephalids in the family Anguillidae.