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James Kenneth Lowry (1942[1][2] - 2021)[3] was a zoologist specialising in amphipods.[4][5][6]

He retired as a principal research scientist at the Australian Museum, where he worked from 1976[3] to 2011.

He earned his first degree from the University of Richmond and his Ph. D. from the University of Canterbury in 1976 with the thesis, Studies on the macrobenthos of the Southern Ocean.[7] In 1972, Lowry survived five days on Antarctic sea ice, with three fellow students, after a late-evening sail went wrong.[8]

His zoological author abbreviation is Lowry.[9] He has authored over 500 taxa. See also: Category:Taxa named by James K. Lowry and this query.

Publications

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References

  1. ^ "zobacz khw | Prosto do informacji - katalog zbiorów polskich bibliotek naukowych". katalog.nukat.edu.pl. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Trove: Lowry, James K. (1942-)". trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. ^ a b "At the mercy of the ice". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  4. ^ J. K. Lowry; A. A. Myers (2022). "Platorchestiinae subfam. nov. (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae) with the description of three new genera and four new species". Zootaxa. 5100 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5100.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q114637605.
  5. ^ J K Lowry; R T Springthorpe; A A Myers (20 August 2020). "Carpentaria gen. nov., a new talitrid genus from tropical Australia (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitroidea, Protorchestiidae)". Zootaxa. 4834 (3): 425–433. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4834.3.5. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 33056116. Wikidata Q100555470.
  6. ^ J. K. Lowry (1974). "Key and checklist to the gammaridean amphipods of Kaikoura". New Zealand Natural Sciences. 2. doi:10.26021/489. ISSN 0113-7492. Wikidata Q97665259.
  7. ^ Lowry, James (1976). Studies on the macrobenthos of the Southern Ocean (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/7985. hdl:10092/7579.
  8. ^ "At the mercy of the ice". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  9. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Tryphosella serans Lowry & Stoddart, 1983". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 13 October 2022.


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