César Auguste Récluz (17 March 1799 in Agde – 11 July 1873 in Paris) was a French malacologist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- "Conus" of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean by Alan J. Kohn
- Petymol Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. Q & R
- WorldCat Search published works
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