Ophichthus fowleri, also known as the Fowler's snake eel is a species of eel in the family Ophichthidae. It is a marine eel which is known from the eastern Central Pacific in Hawaii.
The fish's patronym was not identified but it is certainly in honor of American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler (1878–1965), of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and a student of Jordan’s at Stanford University. [1]