Person naturalist botanist
Richard Thomas Lowe
Lowe
naturalist · botanist
English naturalist and botanist whose publications recorded Madeira's fishes and flowering plants. He named the genera Pedrosia, Monizia and Normania after Madeiran friends, and lost part of Moniz's herbarium in the shipwreck that killed him.
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- Calcareous bodies of Piedade — Botanist who, according to the Elucidário, regarded the Piedade bodies as sandy-calcareous concretions.
- Fish — Naturalist whose publications record the fish species of Madeira.
- Phanerogams — Botanist who studied Madeira's flowering plants.
- Pedroso (João António) — English botanist, friend of Pedroso, who named the genus Pedrosia after him.
- Tubarão (Carcharias microps) — Naturalist who described specimens of this shark about 8 feet long.
- Desembarcadouros (islet) — Naturalist who called the islet the botanical garden of the Ponta de São Lourenço because of its rare plants.
- Useful cucurbits — Naturalist who distinguished two varieties of the boganga, picta and lactea.
- Moniz (João Maria) — English botanist who borrowed part of Moniz's herbarium, lost it in the shipwreck that killed him, and named the genus Monizia in 1856.
- Norman (Captain Francisco N.) — Naturalist who dedicated the genus Normania, later merged into Solanum, to Norman.
- Dourada (Coryphaena equisetis) — Naturalist cited for the local names 'dourado fêmea' for Coryphaena equisetis and 'dourado macho' for Coryphaena hippuris.
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