Richard Thomas Lowe

Richard Lowe
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وُلِدَ	1802
توفي	1874 Isles of Scilly
الجنسية	United Kingdom
المدرسة الأم	Christ's College, Cambridge
السيرة العلمية
المجالات	botany, ichthyology, malacology

Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825, he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders. In 1832, he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on the Madeiran flora. He died in 1874 when the ship he was on was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly.

 Taxa

Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including:

• Caseolus, a land snail genus and eight species within it
• Lemniscia, a land snail genus and two species within it

 See also

• Category:Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe

 References

• "Lowe, Richard Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography (in الإنجليزية). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.