Editing Louis Agassiz (section)

===Biological tributes===
Several animal species are named in honor of him, including 
*Agassiz's dwarf cichlid ''[[Apistogramma agassizii]]'' {{small|[[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], 1875}};
*Agassiz's perchlet, also known as Agassiz's glass fish; and the olive perchlet ''[[Ambassis agassizii]]'' {{small|[[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], 1866}}; 
*The Spring Cavefish ''[[Forbesichthys agassizii]]'' {{small|([[Frederic Ward Putnam|Putnam]], 1872)}}; 
*the catfish ''[[Corydoras agassizii]]'' {{small|[[Franz Steindachner|Steindachner]], 1876}}; 
*the Rio Skate ''[[Rioraja agassizii]]'' {{small|([[Johannes Peter Müller|J. P. Müller]] & [[Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle|Henle]], 1841)}};
*The South American fish ''[[Leporinus agassizii]]'' <ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/characiformes2/ | title = Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE | access-date = 24 March 2022 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018 | archive-date = January 9, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220109173908/https://etyfish.org/characiformes2/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>
*the Snailfish ''[[Liparis agassizii]]'' {{small|[[Frederic Ward Putnam|Putnam]], 1874}}; 
*a sea snail, ''[[Borsonella agassizii]]'' {{small|([[William Healey Dall|Dall]], 1908)}}; 
*a species of crab ''[[Eucratodes agassizii]]'' {{small|[[Alphonse Milne-Edwards|A. Milne Edwards]], 1880}};
*''[[Capniidae|Isocapnia agassizi]]'' {{small|Ricker, 1943}} (a [[stonefly]]); 
*''[[Publius agassizi]]'' {{small|([[Johann Jakob Kaup|Kaup]], 1871)}} (a [[Passalidae|passalid beetle]]);
*''[[Xylocrius agassizi]]'' {{small|([[John Lawrence LeConte|LeConte]], 1861)}} (a [[longhorn beetle]]);
*''[[Exoprosopa agassizii]]'' {{small|Loew, 1869}} (a [[Bombyliidae|bee fly]]);
*''[[Chelonia agassizii]]'' {{small|[[Marie Firmin Bocourt|Bocourt]], 1868}} (Galápagos green turtle);<ref name=EDR>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Agassiz, J.L.R.", p. 2).</ref> 
*''[[Philodryas|Philodryas agassizii]]'' {{small|([[Giorgio Jan|Jan]], 1863)}} (a South American snake);<ref name=EDR/> 
and the most well-known, 
*''[[Gopherus agassizii]]'' {{small|([[James Graham Cooper|Cooper]], 1863)}} (the desert tortoise).<ref name=EDR/> 
*In 2020, a new genus of pycnodont fish (Actinopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) named ''[[Agassazilia erfoundina]]'' (Cooper and Martill, 2020) from the Moroccan Kem Kem Group was named in honor of Agassiz, who first identified the group in the 1830s.