Open wide! The gaping gob of a pelican eel can expand into a voluminous sac for trapping elusive prey in the dark ocean ...

He said, "When most people, and even fish scientists, hear "gulper eel," they are probably thinking of what is actually the pelican eel—Eurypharynx pelecanoides," which is the only species in ...

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The gulper eel’s large mouth allows it to engulf ... However, the eel, also known as the pelican eel because its scoop-like feeding method resembles that of a pelican, primarily consumes small ...

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Eurypharynx pelecanoides, known colloquially as the "umbrellamouth gulper," throws wide its loosely ... lower jaw (hence its common name, pelican eel). Though a fearsome-looking creature, the ...