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Richard Thomas Lowe

[[Category:Zoologists with author abbreviations|Lowe (used also for Percy Lowe]]

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.

Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including:

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