Harttia fowleri is a species of armored catfish that inhabits the Oyapock River basin of Brazil and French Guiana. C. fowleri is a poorly known species that was caught in rapids along with Metaloricaria paucidens. This species grows to a length of 22.2 centimetres (8.7 in) SL.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Loricariidae |
| Genus: | Harttia |
| Species: | H. fowleri
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| Binomial name | |
| Harttia fowleri (Pellegrin, 1908)
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The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler (1878–1965), of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.[2]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Harttia fowleri". FishBase. October 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Family LORICARIIDAE: Subfamilies LITHOGENINAE, HYPOPTOPOMINAE and LORICARIINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Archived from the original on 8 February 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
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