A small freshwater fish of the perch family, found in certain US rivers.
Percina tanasi, family Percidae
Example sentencesExamples
The general coloration of the snail darter is brown to brownish-gray with a trace of green above and mostly white below.
Most people know only one darter, Percina tanasi, the snail darter. Etnier is the man who made the snail darter famous, discovering what was then a new fish to science in 1973, just upstream of the all-but-complete Tellico Dam, which was being built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Environmentalists have had considerable success in the courts, most memorably in 1978, when the Supreme Court blocked - temporarily - construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee to preserve a tiny fish, the snail darter.
Definition of snail darter in US English:
snail darter
noun
A small freshwater fish of the perch family, found in certain US rivers.
Percina tanasi, family Percidae
Example sentencesExamples
Environmentalists have had considerable success in the courts, most memorably in 1978, when the Supreme Court blocked - temporarily - construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee to preserve a tiny fish, the snail darter.
The general coloration of the snail darter is brown to brownish-gray with a trace of green above and mostly white below.
Most people know only one darter, Percina tanasi, the snail darter. Etnier is the man who made the snail darter famous, discovering what was then a new fish to science in 1973, just upstream of the all-but-complete Tellico Dam, which was being built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).