Richard Thomas Lowe was a British botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge and in the same year took holy orders. He became a clergyman in the Madeira

Madeira

Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union...

 Islands in 1832, where he was a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora

Flora

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...

 and fauna

Fauna

Fauna or faunæ is all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants is flora.Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, e.g. the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna"...

. He wrote a book on Madeiran flora. In 1874 he died, when the ship he was on was wrecked off Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

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Taxa

Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including:

• Caseolus
  Caseolus
  Caseolus is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae.The name Caseolus is masculine and means "little cheese", based on the shape of the shell of this species.-Species:...
  
  , a land snail
  Snail
  Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
  
   genus and 8 species within it
• Lemniscia
  Lemniscia
  Lemniscia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Hygromiidae, the hairy snails and their allies.-Species:Species within the genus Lemniscia include:* Lemniscia calva...
  
  , a land snail
  Snail
  Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
  
  genus and 2 species within it