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César Auguste Récluz
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 ''Conus recluzianus'', common name the Récluz cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. Like all species within the genus ''Conus'', these snails are predatory and ...'', ''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 Erycin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agde
Agde (; ) is a commune in the Hérault department in Southern France. It is the Mediterranean port of the Canal du Midi. Location Agde is located on the Hérault river, from the Mediterranean Sea, and from Paris. The Canal du Midi connects to the Hérault river at the Agde Round Lock ("L'Écluse Ronde d'Agde") just north of Agde, and the Hérault flows into the Mediterranean at Le Grau d'Agde. Agde station has high speed rail connections to Paris and Perpignan, and regional services to Narbonne, Montpellier and Avignon. History Foundation Agde (525 BCE) is one of the oldest towns in France, after Béziers (575 BCE) and Marseille (600 BCE). Agde ('' Agathe Tyche'', "good fortune") was a 5th-century BCE Greek colony settled by Phocaeans from Massilia. The Greek name was Agathe ( grc, Ἀγάθη). The symbol of the city, the bronze '' Ephebe of Agde'', of the 4th century BCE, recovered from the fluvial sands of the Hérault, was joined in December 2001 by two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
