César Auguste Récluz Explained
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, Paramya recluzi, and Glossaulax reclusiana.[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]
Notes and References
- 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.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=mLiQAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA131 "Conus" of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean
- http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.qr.html Petymol
- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ARe%CC%81cluz%2C+C.+A.%2C&qt=hot_author WorldCat Search
