US EPA

1427100 

Journal Article 

Sensitivity to uranium of six species of tropical freshwater fishes and four species of cladocerans from northern Australia 

Bywater, JF; Banaczkowski, R; Bailey, M 

1991 

Yes 

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
ISSN: 0730-7268
EISSN: 1552-8618 

BIOSIS/92/04221 

10 

11 

1449-1458 

eng 

WOS:A1991GM68800010 

BIOSIS COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. The toxicity of uranium to the tropical freshwater fishes-black-banded rainbowfish (Melanotaenia nigrans), chequered rainbowfish (Melanotaenia splendida inornata), Mariana's hardy-head (Craterocephalus marianae), delicate blue-eye (Pseudomugil tenellus), reticulated perchlet (Ambassis macleayi), and purple-spotted gudgeon (Mogurnda mogurnda)-and the cladocerans-Diaphanosoma excisum, Latonopsis fasciculata, Dadaya macrops, and Moinodaphnia macleayi-was measured under standard conditions in natural creek water. The fishes' 96-h LC50s for uranium were 1.7 and 1.9 mg for 7- and 90-d-old black-banded rainbowfishes 2.66 and 3.46 mg/L for 7- and 90-d-old chequered rainbowfishes, 1.22 mg/L for Mariana's hardyhead, 0.73 mg/L for delicate blue-eyes, 0.8 mg/L for reticulated perchlet, and 1.11 and 1.46 mg/L for 7- and 90-d-old purple-spotted gudgeon. The cladocerans' 24-h LC50s for uranium were 1.0 mg/L for Diaphanosoma excisum, 0.41 mg/L for Latonopsis fasciculata, 1.10 mg/L for D 

Radiation-Radiation Effects and Protective Measures; Ecology; Ecology; Biochemical Studies-Minerals; Toxicology-Environmental and Industrial Toxicology; Public Health: Environmental Health-Air; Invertebrata; Branchiopoda; Osteichthyes