snail darter, a small, rare fish, Percina tanasi, discovered by a zoologist who was snorkeling in the Little Tennessee River upstream from the projected Tellico Dam. Dam opponents fought successfully to include the darter on the Endangered Species List in 1975 (see endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S.
..... Click the link for more information. ), and the dam was halted. In 1978, the Supreme Court sided with environmentalists, but Congress declared the fish nonendangered and the Tellico was built. Snail darters are classified in the phylum Chordata Chordata , phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Percomorphi, family Percidae.

snail darter

Rare species (Percina tanasi) of darter that originally was found only in the Little Tennessee River in the southeastern U.S. It became the subject of a legal controversy in 1978, when its status as an endangered species delayed for two years the construction of Tellico Dam. The situation was resolved when the fish was successfully introduced into the Hiwassee River.

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And how environmentalists--at the highest level, not the college student next door who has no idea of what is being done in the name of being "green" --consider mankind to be an alien life form on the planet, while protection of the snail darter is to be accomplished at any cost.

Dissecting environmental extremism: the documentary film Not Evil ... by Hiserodt, Ed / The New American

In those three-and-a-half decades we've cleaned up the smokestacks and shipped our production to countries more worried about creating jobs for their people than whether the snail darter has pristine streams in which to swim or the spotted owl has undisturbed primeval forests in which to catch rodents.

Weighing the options: the old saw about how "it's hard to drain the ... by Nofel, Pete / Modern Applications News

Sure, there were some silly-sounding species among the beneficiaries, including the 3-inch snail darter that stalled completion of a Tennessee Valley Authority dam.

ANOTHER ASSAULT ON ENDANGERED SPECIES by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)