Pas de risque immédiat — population stable.
Source : Liste rouge de l’UICN, lue via l’API publique de GBIF, consultée le 5 novembre 2026.
The pelican eel is a deep-sea eel. It is the only known member of the genus Eurypharynx and the family Eurypharyngidae. The species belongs to the "saccopharyngiforms", members of which were historically placed in their own order, but are now considered true eels in the order Anguilliformes. The pelican eel has been described by many synonyms, yet nobody has been able to demonstrate that more than one species of pelican eel exists. It is also referred to as the gulper eel, pelican gulper, and umbrella-mouth gulper. The specific epithet pelecanoides refers to the pelican, as the fish's large mouth is reminiscent of that of the pelican.
Résumé : Wikipédia (en anglais) — licence CC BY-SA.
- Nom scientifique
- Eurypharynx pelecanoides Vaillant, 1882
- Règne
- Animalia
- Classe
- Teleostei
- Ordre
- Anguilliformes
- Famille
- Eurypharyngidae
- Où
- vit ou plonge dans les grandes profondeurs
Sources
- WoRMS — nom et classification (AphiaID 127165)
- Wikipédia — résumé et photo
- Liste rouge de l’UICN via GBIF
Données consultées le 2026-11-05.
