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Main Title Toxicity and Bioconcentration of BHC and Lindane in Selected Estuarine Animals.
Author Schimmel, S. ; Patrick, J. M. ; Forester., J. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab., Gulf Breeze, Fla.
Year Published 1977
Report Number EPA/600/J-77/070 ;CONTRIB-288;
Stock Number PB-277 150
Additional Subjects Pesticides ; Toxicity ; Insecticides ; Shrimps ; Oysters ; Crustacea ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Estuaries ; Bioassay ; Toxicology ; Lethal dosage ; Aquatic animals ; Chlorobenzenes ; Exposure ; Absorption(Biology) ; Penaeus duorarum ; Bioaccumulation ; Lindane ; Toxic substances ; Mysidopsis bahia ; Palaemonetes pugio ; Cyprinodon variegatus ; Lagodon rhomboides ; Crassostrea virginica ; Pesticide residues ; Benzene/hexachloro ; Water pollution effects(Animals) ; Reprints
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NTIS  PB-277 150 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Flow-through, 96-hr bioassays were conducted to determine the acute toxicity of technical BHC and lindane to several estuarine animals. Test animals and their respective 96-hr lindane LC50 values were: mysid (Mysidopsis bahia), 6.3 micrograms/L; pink shrimp (Penaeus duorarum), 0.17 micrograms/L; grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio), 4.4 micrograms/L; sheepshead minnow (Cyprinodon variegatus), 104 micrograms/L; and pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides), 30.6 micrograms/L. The 96-hr LC50 values for pink shrimp and pinfish exposed to BHC were 0.34 and 86.4 micrograms/L, respectively. Two BHC bioconcentration studies were conducted with the oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and pinfish. After 28 days exposure, oysters bioconcentrated an average of 218 X the BHC measured in exposure water, while pinfish bioconcentrated 130 X in their edible tissues and 617 X in offal. After one week in BHC-free sea water, no detectable residues were measured in oysters or pinfish. (Copyright (c) Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1977.)