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title: "Sea creature gulper eel"  
description: "A short explanation of the sea creature gulper eel and it's interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-09-26  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2668/sea-creature-gulper-eel  
category: "animals"  
tags: ["Gulper eel", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Sea creature gulper eel

![Sea creature gulper eel](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/159fbb5f-e678-4f5e-be9b-dd2315d97fc6/images/ff28df64-54c5-430d-9818-a41573c2752d.jpeg) ![Sea creature gulper eel](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/159fbb5f-e678-4f5e-be9b-dd2315d97fc6/images/c3343464-da09-4d14-8ace-3ae1a07071ea.jpeg) The gulper eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) is a deep-sea fish with a pelican-like mouth. ![Sea creature gulper eel](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/159fbb5f-e678-4f5e-be9b-dd2315d97fc6/images/e79c4e68-0611-465d-a942-0696bd5d2f40.jpeg) They reside in the ocean's mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones, which are 200 to 4,000 metres deep. ![Sea creature gulper eel](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/159fbb5f-e678-4f5e-be9b-dd2315d97fc6/images/4ba4f3f4-3853-4bb7-bee0-925197e5cc0b.jpeg) Their mouth is so enormous that they can swallow prey much larger than themselves. ![Sea creature gulper eel](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/159fbb5f-e678-4f5e-be9b-dd2315d97fc6/images/16f8301d-c247-4959-b8d8-6814f05f235d.jpeg) They attract prey by using a bioluminescent lure on their chin. ![Sea creature gulper eel](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/159fbb5f-e678-4f5e-be9b-dd2315d97fc6/images/9405d9d7-0665-4281-b536-296639d6202e.jpeg) Gulper eels are frequently referred to as "pelican eels" because to their likeness to pelicans.

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