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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 speciesendangered 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 ChordataChordata
, 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 animals.
..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Actinopterygii, order Perciformes, family Percidae.
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A report on the status of the endangered snail darter, Percina tanasi.
Distribution of the threatened snail darter (percina tanasi in the upper Tennessee River drainage
Murchison reveals that the snail darter case was just one part of a long struggle over whether the TVA should build the Tellico Dam.
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To round out the comedy, a few years later the snail darter was found to flourish in several other nearby streams, so allowing Tellico did not finish it off after all.
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The $100,000,000 Tellico Dam project in Tennessee was halted indefinitely when the Supreme Court ruled that the snail darter, a rare species of perch, was protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and that construction of the dam threatened its extinction.
1978: Business and industry; science; education; philosophy and religion
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A little common sense in the application of some of these might help, but apparently common sense has joined the snail darter on the Endangered List.
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behalf of the little endangered snail darter fish, Percina tanasi,
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The smallest: a two-inch snail darter, an endangered species in Tennessee.
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1979 In September, Congress passes an appropriations bill that includes an exemption for the Tellico Dam project, flooding critical habitat of the snail darter.
Endangered Species Timeline
The chapter about the environment begins with, yes, the snail darter.
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