Panturichthys fowleri

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn|author=Smith, D.G. |year= 2014 |title= Panturichthys fowleri |page= e.T194814A49080381 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T194814A49080381.en |access-date=23 August 2023}}

| genus = Panturichthys

| species = fowleri

| authority = (Ben-Tuvia, 1953)

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| synonyms = * Lophenchelys fowleri Ben-Tuvia, 1953

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Panturichthys fowleri, commonly known as Fowler's shortfaced eel, is an eel in the family Heterenchelyidae (mud eels).{{FishBase|genus=Panturichthys|species=fowleri|id=54552|month=April|year=2013}} It was described by Adam Ben-Tuvia in 1953, originally under the genus Lophenchelys.Ben-Tuvia, A., 1953 (Aug.) [ref. 257] Mediterranean fishes of Israel. Bulletin, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Fisheries, Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa No. 8: 1-40. It is a subtropical, marine eel which is known from a single specimen collected from Israel, in the Mediterranean Sea. The holotype specimen was discovered dwelling at a depth range of 27–55 metres.

The fishes name is in honor of Henry Weed Fowler (1878-1965), of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, for his help in determining the identity of two other undescribed fishes from Israel.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/anguilliformes1/ | title = Order ANGUILLIFORMES: Families PROTANGUILLIDAE, SYNAPHOBRANCHIDAE, HETERENCHELYIDAE, MYROCONGRIDAE, MURAENIDAE, CHLOPSIDAE and DERICHTHYIDAE | access-date= 13 January 2022 | 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}}