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The test organisms used in the procedures described in this manual are the sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus; the inland silverside, Menidia beryllina; the mysid, Mysidopsis bahia; the sea urchin, Arbacia punctulata; and the red macroalga, Champia parvula.
1 The results of the sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus, inland silverside, Menidia beryllina, or mysid, Mysidopsis bahia, tests are acceptable if survival in the controls is 80% or greater.
Ward and Parrish (1980) examined the literature on ELS tests that used embryos and juveniles of the sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus, and found that growth was not a statistically sensitive indicator of toxicity in 16 of 18 tests.
Fish such as sheepshead minnows and silversides, and invertebrates such as mysids, are easily reared in the laboratory or purchased.
The day was sultry, without the slightest breeze to create even a suggestion of a cat's paw on the surface of Sheepshead Bay; I caught about twenty-odd fluke, which just lay there, scarcely my notion of game fishing.