Jason Nark (3 de enero de 2025). «This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction». New York Times(en inglés). Consultado el 4 de enero de 2025. «“There is, technically, no snail darter,” said Thomas Near, curator of ichthyology at the Yale Peabody Museum [...] the snail darter, Percina tanasi, is neither a distinct species nor a subspecies. Rather, it is an eastern population of Percina uranidea [...] early researchers “squinted their eyes a bit” when describing the fish, because it represented a way to fight the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plan to build the Tellico Dam».
«Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all». Yale News(en inglés) (Yale University). 3 de enero de 2025. Consultado el 4 de enero de 2025. «A new study by Yale researchers shows that the tiny fish, discovered in a lower stretch of the Little Tennessee River in 1973, is not a distinct species at all, meaning it was never endangered.»
