César Auguste Récluz


César Auguste Récluz 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.