Fowleria
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| Fowleria | |
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| Fowleria marmorata | |
| Scientific classification Edit this 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
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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
[edit | edit source]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)
References
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- ^ 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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