César Auguste Récluz (17 March 1799 in Agde – 11 July 1873 in Paris) was a French malacologist.[1]
He worked as a pharmacistinVaugirard; 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 and Paramya recluzi.[3]
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