Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) 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 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 Notes 1802 births 1874 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge English botanists English ichthyologists English malacologists English zoologists