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Main Title Effects of Fenvalerate on the Early Life Stages of Topsmelt ('Atherinops affinis').
Author Goodman, L. R. ; Hemmer, M. J. ; Middaugh, D. P. ; Moore, J. C. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab., Gulf Breeze, FL.
Publisher c1992
Year Published 1992
Report Number EPA/600/J-92/211;
Stock Number PB92-195684
Additional Subjects Water pollution effects(Animals) ; Fenvalerate ; Toxicity ; Life cycles ; Dose-response relationships ; Mortality ; Reprints ; Topsmelt ; Atherinops affinis
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NTIS  PB92-195684 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Flow-through acute and early-life-stage (ELS) toxicity tests were conducted with topsmelt (Atherinops affinis), a Pacific coast saltwater fish, and fenvalerate, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide. The 96-h LC50 for juvenile fish was 0.66 micrograms/L. In the 30-d ELS test with laboratory-spawned embryos, average measured fenvalerate concentrations were nondetectable (<0.075 micrograms/L) in two control treatments, 0.14, 0.34, 0.82, 1.5, and 3.2 micrograms/L. Survival of embryos to hatching ranged from 94 to 100%, with no statistically significant differences among treatments. No fry survived exposure to fenvalerate concentrations > or = 0.82 micrograms/L; overall survival in lower concentrations and control treatments ranged from 86 to 97%. There were no consistent concentration-dependent differences in weight between fish in the carrier-control treatment and fish exposed to fenvalerate. Mean wet weights of surviving fish ranged from 16.9 mg in 0.34 micrograms/L to 20.3 mg in 0.14 micrograms/L. The average bioconcentration factor for fish exposed to 0.14 and 0.34 micrograms fenvalerate per liter was 315.