Watch rare footage of a shapeshifting eel with 'remarkably full tummy' swimming in the deep sea

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The slender "gulper eel" can unhinge its jaw and expand its throat, enabling it to eat squid-sized prey in a single gulp.

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[Robert Lohman]

Great video! I'm not an icthyologist but this looks to me like Saccopharynx sp. rather than the more familiar Eurypharynx pelecanoides. I'm not sure if E.p. has a distensible abdomen. In the video mentioned it seemed to be using its balooning "pouch" to capture a small shrimp or the like.