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Le Sueur, C. A. 1817. Characters of a new genus, and descriptions of three new species upon which it is formed; discovered in the
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Collins, A. G.; Jarms, G.; Morandini, A. C. (2019). World List of
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Between May 1816 and early 1837, he lived and traveled widely in the United States, particularly in
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of frog, two species of lizards, and a species of jellyfish were named in honour of
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du Havre and possibly the Ecole publique des mathématiques et d'hydrographie. He was in military service in a cadet battalion at age fifteen and was in the
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specimens of unique fish, animals, and fossils, as well as artifacts he had dug from the Indian Mounds in New
Harmony, back to France, where they remain.
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The Great Traveller Charles Alexandre Lesueur in the Forest
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345:, in 1831, sketch from Charles Alexandre Lesueur
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283:had died and William MacClure had returned to
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255:From 1826 to 1837, Lesueur was based in
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251:Drawing of jellyfish by Lesueur
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48:Lesueur in 1818, painted by
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240:Self portrait from
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400:Amalosia lesueurii
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