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Oops! »» "Snail darter revisited: Famous fish that halted a dam’s construction is not endangered after all."
"After conducting standard species identification and classification testing, they discovered that the snail darter was not a unique or endangered fish after all. Instead, it was a member of the stargazing darter species, which is present and plentiful in many places in the U.S...the snail darter was a phantom all along—there never was such a fish species."
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-snail-darter-revisited-famous-fish.html
"After conducting standard species identification and classification testing, they discovered that the snail darter was not a unique or endangered fish after all. Instead, it was a member of the stargazing darter species, which is present and plentiful in many places in the U.S...the snail darter was a phantom all along—there never was such a fish species."
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-snail-darter-revisited-famous-fish.html