Charles Alexandre Lesueur
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French naturalist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Alexandre Lesueur was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer. He was a prolific natural-history collector, gathering many type specimens in Australia, Southeast Asia, and North America, and was also responsible for describing numerous species, including the spiny softshell turtle , smooth softshell turtle , and common map turtle . Both Mount Lesueur and Lesueur National Park in Western Australia are named in his honor.
