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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.
Interlaboratory precision data from a 1991 study of chronic toxicity tests using two reference toxicants with the mysid, Mysidopsis bahia, and the inland silverside, Menidia beryllina, is listed in Table 1. Table 2 shows interlaboratory precision data from a study of three chronic toxicity test methods using effluent, receiving water, and reference toxicant sample types (USEPA, 2001a; USEPA, 2001b).
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.
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).
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