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This study describes the use of newly hatched larvae of Callinectes sapidus (blue crab) in a 48-h acute toxicity test and compares their sensitivity to two other estuarine crustaceans (Mysidopsis bahia and Palaemonetes pugio) commonly used for evaluation of effects of potentially toxic materials. C. sapidus larvae were twice as sensitive to sodium dodecyl sulfate as ≤ 24-h post-release M. bahia, and five times more sensitive than ≤ 24-h-old P. pugio larvae. We found the blue crab toxicity test to be simple, rapid and accurate and it provides low variability and high reproducibility. Since the data indicate high sensitivity of this commercially important species to a reference toxicant and the potential impact on its survival during a critically sensitive developmental stage, we propose future research further evaluating C. sapidus as a potential toxicity test species.
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Contribution No. 943 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Devision, Gulf Breeze, FL
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Whiting, V.K., Cripe, G.M. & Lepo, J.E. Effects of the anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate, on newly-hatched blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, and other routinely tested estuarine crustaceans. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 31, 293–295 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00212380
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