Richard Thomas Lowe
Richard Thomas Lowe was an English scientist, a botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and a 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 Scilly Isles.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
