César Auguste Récluz (17 March 1799 in

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– 11 July 1873 in

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) was a French

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

. He worked as a

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in Vaugirard; as an amateur malacologist, he specialized in the family

Neritidae Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritininae Poey, 1852. Accessed through: ...

, of which he described approximately 200 species. Much of his conchology collection was acquired by

Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (14 February 1773 – 1 March 1847) was a French banker and naturalist. He was an honorary member of the Académie des Sciences and many species were named from his natural history collections. Biography He was bor ...

. In 1853

Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye (1792–1870)Coan E. V. & Kabat A. R. (2017). ''2,400 years of malacology, 14th ed.'', 1,443 pp. + 110 pp. nnex 1 – Book Collations+ 65 pp. nnex 2 – Küster Collation 51 pp. nnex 3 – Journal Coll ...

named the

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

genus ''

Recluzia ''Recluzia'' is a genus of small to medium-sized pelagic or planktonic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Epitoniidae.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Recluzia Petit de la Saussaye, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Ma ...

'' in his honour. He also has several species named after him; examples being '' Conus recluzianus'', ''Polinices reclusianus'' and ''Paramya recluzi''.

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.WorldCat Search
published works

References

French malacologists Conchologists 1799 births 1873 deaths {{France-zoologist-stub