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• 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 5. (concluded)
Species and arsenic
compound Effect Referencea
Copper acetoarsenite 99.8 mg/kg in diet fatal
to 50% in 11 days. 2
Copper acetoarsenite 100 mg/kg in diet
for 3 months fatal to
100%; tissue residues
of 6.1 dry weight in
brain, 40.6 in liver. 2
Gray partridge,
Perdix erdix
Lead arsenate 300 mg/kg BW fatal in
52 hours. 2
Ring-necked pheasant,
Phasianus colchicus
Sodium arsenite Single oral dose of 386
mg/kg BW is LD-50 value. 1
Copper acetoarsenite Single oral dose of 1,403
mg/kg BW is LD-50 value. 3
Lead arsenate 4,989 mg/kg in diet
fatal. 2
aReferences: 1, Hudson et al. 1984; 2, NAS 1977; 3, NRCC 1978; 4, Hood 1985;
5, Woolson 1975.
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