7092

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7092
• Author: Eisler, R.
• Title: Arsenic Hazards to Fish, Wildlife, and Invertebrates
• USFW Year: 1988.
• USFW - Doc Type: A Synoptic Review.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 4. (continued)
Ecosyste species, arsenic Arsenic Effect Referenceb
compound and other concentration
variables
As +3 0.095 mg/l No sexual repro-

+3 duction. 10
As 0.30 mg/l Death. 10
As +5 10 mg/l Normal growth, but
no sexual repro-
duction. 10
Phyt?Elankton
As 0.075 mg/l Reduced biomass
of populations
in 4 days. 3
Red figa, Plumaria elegans
As 0.58 mg/l Arrested sporeling
development 7 days
posttreatment after
exposure for 18
hours. 2
Alga?5Skeletonema costatum
As 0.13 mg/l Growth inhibition. 3
5Thalassiosira aestivalis
Alga 4
-
As 0.075 mg/l Reduced chloro-
phyll a. 3
MARINE INVERTEBRATES
Cope?gd, Acartia clausi
As 0.51 mg/l LC-50 (96 hours). 3
Dung?less crab, Cancer magister
As 0.23 mg/l LC-50 (96 hours)
for zoea. 3
Amphigod, Corophium volutator

Water temperature, C
5 8 mg/l LC-50 (230 hours). 11
10 8 mg/l LC-50 (150 hours). 11
15 8 mg/l LC-50 (74 hours). 11
15 4 mg/l LC-50 (140 hours). 11
15 2 mg/l LC-50 (192 hours). 11
Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas
50