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, Paramya recluzi, and Glossaulax reclusiana.^[3][1]

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]