Fowler's snake eel
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| genus = Ophichthus
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| authority = (D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1903)
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Ophichthus fowleri, also known as the Fowler's snake eel is a species of eel in the family Ophichthidae.{{FishBase species | genus = Ophichthus | species = fowleri | month = October | year = 2015 }} It is a marine eel which is known from the eastern Central Pacific in Hawaii.
Etymology
The fish's patronym was not identified but it is certainly in honor of American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler (1878–1965), of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and a student of Jordan’s at Stanford University. {{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ophichthidae/ | title = Family OPHICHTHIDAE Günther 1870 (Snake Eels and Worm Eels) | access-date= 3 August 2024 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}
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Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Category:Taxa named by Barton Warren Evermann
Category:Fish described in 1903
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