Potassium chloride and sodium chloride as reference toxicants to assess quality of toxicity tests carried out with the microcrustacean cladocera Ceriodaphnia dubia

Authors

  • Julio Vicente LOMBARDI Instituto de Pesca, Agência Paulista do Agronegócio, Secretaria da Agricultura e Abastecimento, Governo do Estado de São Paulo
  • Renata BAZANTE-YAMAGUISHI Programa de Pós graduação em Aquicultura e Pesca do Instituto de Pesca, Agencia Paulista do Agronegócio, Secretaria da Agricultura e Abastecimento, Governo do Estado de São Paulo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7793-6478 (unauthenticated)
  • Felipe Franchim MADEIRA Programa de Iniciação Cientí­­fica do Instituto de Pesca, PIBIC/CNPq, Agencia Paulista do Agronegócio, Secretaria da Agricultura e Abastecimento, Governo do Estado de São Paulo
  • Paulo Lahóz CONCILIO Programa de Iniciação Cientí­­fica do Instituto de Pesca, PIBIC/CNPq, Agencia Paulista do Agronegócio, Secretaria da Agricultura e Abastecimento, Governo do Estado de São Paulo
  • Natália Palermo Pereira CARUSO Programa de Pós graduação em Aquicultura e Pesca do Instituto de Pesca, Agencia Paulista do Agronegócio, Secretaria da Agricultura e Abastecimento, Governo do Estado de São Paulo
  • Edison BARBIERI Instituto de Pesca, Agência Paulista do Agronegócio, Secretaria da Agricultura e Abastecimento, Governo do Estado de São Paulo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7423-3726 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20950/1678-2305.2018.311

Keywords:

sensitivity, reference toxicant, KCl, NaCl

Abstract

Two reference toxicants (potassium chloride-KCl and sodium chloride-NaCl) were used in the present study in order to assess the sensitivity of the microcrustacean cladocera Ceriodaphnia dubia. Chronic toxicity tests were carried out with those two salts and the sensitivity expressed as IC50;7D - concentration that causes inhibition of 50% of reproduction ability, in seven days exposure time. The medium values estimated for IC50;7D were 200.70 and 499.60 to KCl and NaCl, respectively. Those data have demonstrated that KCl can be more restrictive and more suitable than NaCl, when used as standard reference toxicant for plotting control charts of sensitivity

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Published

2018-12-25

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 3 (2018): BOLETIM DO INSTITUTO DE PESCA

Section

Short Communication

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