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.