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Snail darter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The snail darter is a small (up to 9 cm long) fish native to waters of East Tennessee. It is a variety of darter which feeds primarily on aquatic snails. The snail darter was declared an endangered ...
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Snail darter controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The snail darter controversy involved the delay of the construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River in 1973. On August 12 1973, University of Tennessee biologist and professor David...
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Only found in Alabama and Tennessee, the Alabama population of the federally threatened snail darter is limited to the Paint Rock River. ... HABITAT AND BIOLOGY: Starnes (1977) presents a comprehensive life study of the snail darter. Percina tanasi is found over gravel and sand shoals with moderate current in large...
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Thanks to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, the snail darter was instantly transformed into both an icon for species preservation and a despised symbol of the environmental movement’s alleged excesses. The intense legal battle that ensued over its fate was contested all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on snail darter (fish), 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 ...
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Anyway, the fish in the picture is called a snail darter. They’re really small; adults get to be about three inches long. But their story is pretty interesting, and if you ask me, pretty tragic. It’s a long, strange, twisting tale, but in the end, the tail darters meet an unfortunate end.
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thethirdwave.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/the-tragic-story-...
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The snail darter is a small fish with "no economic or recreational value" to us which was proclaimed to be an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1978 during the construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee.
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