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Main Title Chronic effects of endrin on bluntnose minnows and guppies /
Author Mount, Donald Irvin.
Publisher United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
Year Published 1962
OCLC Number 05041604
Subjects Endrin ; Bluntnose minnow ; Guppies ; Poecilia
Additional Subjects Endrin ; Bluntnose minnow ; Guppies
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EJDM  SH11.A3 no. 58 Env Science Center Library/Ft Meade,MD 01/29/1999
ELBM  SH11.A3 1962 no.58 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 04/13/2020
Collation iv, 38 pages illustrations, diagrams, tables 26 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).
Contents Notes
Abstract -- Introduction -- Chronic-toxicity tests on bluntnose minnows -- Chronic-toxicity tests on guppies -- Acute-toxicity tests on bluntnose minnows -- Effect of endrin on oxygen consumption -- Effect of endrin on swimming of bluntnose minnows --Port of entry into the distribution of endrin in the fish's body -- Mode of action of endrin on animals -- Summary -- Conclusions -- Literature cited -- Appendix raw data from tests In an investigation of chronic toxicity of endrin to bluntnose minnows and guppies, conducted for 291 days, neither species could withstand concentrations greater than 0.5 parts per billion of endrin in water for more than a few days. Less than 50 percent of the test animals could live in 0.5 p.p.b. for more than 30 days. Approximately 65 percent could live in 0.4 p.p.b. for periods exceeding 30 days, while there was little mortality due to endrin on 0.25 and 0.1 p.p.b. endrin in water.