Fowleria

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Gobiaria
Ordo: Kurtiformes

Subordo: Apogonoidei
Familia: Apogonidae
Subfamilia: Apogoninae
Genus: Fowleria
Species: F. aurita – F. flammea – F. isostigma – F. marmorata – F. polystigma – F. vaiulae – F. variegata
Name

Fowleria Jordan & Evermann, 1903

References

Go, O.; Bogorodsky, S.V. 2010: The cardinalfish Fowleria isostigma in the Red Sea and the validity of F. punctulata (Perciformes: Apogonidae). Zootaxa, 2677: 27–37. Preview

Links

Fowleria – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Fowleria species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Fowleria variegata

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)

References

Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2018). "Order KURTIFORMES (Nurseryfishes and Cardinalfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
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.