title: Fowleria
text: # 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.
  
  ## Species
  
  The recognized species in this genus are:
  
  * 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)
  