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McKim (1977) evaluated the data from 56 full life-cycle tests, 32 of which used the fathead minnow, Pimephales promelas, and concluded that the embryo-larval and early juvenile life-stages were the most sensitive stages.
At the end of the test, the average dry weight of surviving seven-day-old fathead minnows in control chambers must equal or exceed 0.25 mg.
The organisms used in the short-term chronic toxicity tests described in this manual are the fathead minnow, Pimephales promelas, the daphnid, Ceriodaphnia dubia (Berner, 1986), and the green alga, Selenastrum capricornutum.
Use of a seven-day, fathead minnow, Pimephales promelas, larval survival and growth test was first proposed by Norberg and Mount at the 1983 annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (Norberg and Mount, 1983).
USEPA (1987b) and USEPA (1987c) adapted the fathead minnow larval growth and survival test for use with the sheepshead minnow and the inland silverside, respectively.