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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.
Data indicate that the inland silverside is at least equally sensitive or more sensitive to effluents and single compounds than the sheepshead minnow, and can be tested over a wider salinity range, 5-30‰ (USEPA, 1987a).
The organisms used in the short-term tests 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.
EMSL-Cincinnati has found FORTY FATHOMS® artificial sea salts suitable for maintaining and spawning the sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus, and for its use in the sheepshead minnow larval survival and growth test, suitable for maintaining and spawning the inland silverside, Menidia beryllina, and for its use in the inland silverside larval survival and growth test, suitable for culturing and maintaining mysid shrimp, Mysidopsis bahia, and its use in the mysid shrimp survival, growth, and fecundity test, and suitable for maintaining sea urchins, Arbacia punctulata, and for its use in the sea urchin fertilization test.
Fish such as sheepshead minnows and silversides, and invertebrates such as mysids, are easily reared in the laboratory or purchased.