Fowleria Explained

Fowleria is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The name of this genus honors the American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler ((1878–1965)) of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, who attended Stanford University, where he was a student of David Starr Jordan's.^[1]

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:^[2]

• Fowleria aurita (Valenciennes, 1831) (crosseyed cardinalfish)
• Fowleria flammea G. R. Allen, 1993
• Fowleria isostigma (D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906) (dotted cardinalfish)
• Fowleria marmorata (Alleyne & W. J. Macleay, 1877) (marbled cardinalfish)
• Fowleria polystigma (Bleeker, 1854)
• Fowleria punctulata (Rüppell, 1838) (spotcheek cardinalfish)
• Fowleria vaiulae (D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1906) (mottled cardinalfish)
• Fowleria variegata (Valenciennes, 1832) (variegated cardinalfish)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Order KURTIFORMES (Nurseryfishes and Cardinalfishes) . 21 September 2018 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 31 May 2018.
2. Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.