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**Lane Snapper**  
  
**This lane snapper, whose modern scientific name is Lutianus synagris, was painted by Jacques Burkhardt during an expedition to Brazil, led by naturalist Louis Agassiz. Burkhardt was a classically trained painter who spent more than twenty years working as Agassiz’s personal artist. He captured vibrant images of animals glimpsed in the field and his illustrations brought lifeto Agassiz’s publications.**  
  
 **Jacques Burkhardt  
1865  
Courtesy of Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University**