Fowleria

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]

Fowleria
Fowleria marmorata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Apogonidae
Subfamily:	Apogoninae
Genus:	Fowleria D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1903
Type species
Apogon auritus Valenciennes, 1831

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)