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]
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| Fowleria marmorata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Kurtiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae |
| Genus: | Fowleria D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1903 |
| Type species | |
| Apogon auritus Valenciennes, 1831
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Species
editThe 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)
References
edit- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2018). "Order KURTIFORMES (Nurseryfishes and Cardinalfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ 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.
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