César Auguste Récluz

César Auguste Récluz (17 March 1799 in Agde – 11 July 1873 in Paris) was a French malacologist.[1]

He worked as a pharmacist in Vaugirard; as an amateur malacologist, he specialized in the family Neritidae, of which he described approximately 200 species. Much of his conchology collection was acquired by Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert.[2]

In 1853 Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye named the sea snail genus Recluzia in his honour. He also has several species named after him; examples being Conus recluzianus, Polinices reclusianus and Paramya recluzi.[3]

Works
  • Description de quelques nouvelles espéces de nérites vivantes, Revue zoologique, 1841, p. 102-109
  • Prodrome d'une monographie du genre Erycine, 1844.
  • Monographie du genre Narica, 1845.
  • Mélanges Malacologiques, 1859.[4]

References
  1. Guy Devaux: Un Pharmacien malacologiste, César Récluz. In: Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie. Vol 67, N0. 402, 2019, ISSN 0035-2349, S. 183–200.
  2. "Conus" of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean by Alan J. Kohn
  3. Petymol Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Q & R
  4. WorldCat Search published works


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