# What kind of eel is this? (Is it even a real animal?)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eel-is-this-is-it-even-a-real-animal/579547 "2011-04-24T11:03:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eel-is-this-is-it-even-a-real-animal/579547/41 "2011-04-28T20:13:48Z")

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If the mutant can boast  
Fukushima as host  
That’s a moray

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**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eel-is-this-is-it-even-a-real-animal/579547/42 "2011-04-28T20:36:51Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Here’s a head shot of his [more ornery cousin](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://blog.mlive.com/minorityreport/2008/08/large_lamprey-chronicle.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.mlive.com/minorityreport/2008/08/lampreys_suck.html&usg=__ppsgLuzb2D-TzBkQ-2Qn7ExqfYU=&h=593&w=453&sz=197&hl=en&start=30&zoom=1&tbnid=KmBJA8Zo8h5WFM:&tbnh=159&tbnw=125&ei=Mem4TcD0Mcz0gAfXw6Bc&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dlamprey%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DgTJ%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1709%26bih%3D853%26tbm%3Disch0%2C724&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=484&page=2&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:30&tx=68&ty=42&biw=1709&bih=853). Rhyme _that_, why don’t you…

That’s gonna show up in my nightmares.

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eel-is-this-is-it-even-a-real-animal/579547/43 "2011-04-28T21:23:18Z")

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Well, this one hasn’t been done exactly yet so …

When an eel lunges out  
And bites off your snout  
That’s a moray!

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eel-is-this-is-it-even-a-real-animal/579547/44 "2011-04-29T01:04:23Z")

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What kind of eel am I?

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eel-is-this-is-it-even-a-real-animal/579547/45 "2011-04-29T01:06:02Z")

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As to the original pic, that’s a vegetable.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-eel-is-this-is-it-even-a-real-animal/579547/46 "2011-04-29T01:30:19Z")

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That’s pretty frightening but I find [this one](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diversas_lampreas.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG) more disturbing, somehow.

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