Acute toxicity bioassay of the mercury chloride and copper Sulphate in Rutilus caspicus and Rutilus kutum

Alireza Pourkhabbaz; Borhan Mansouri; Mohammad Hosein Sinkakarimi; Ghasem Rajaei; Robabeh Vajdi

doi:10.22034/ijab.v4i1.119

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Alireza Pourkhabbaz Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resource and Environment, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran.
Borhan Mansouri 2Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Ira
Mohammad Hosein Sinkakarimi Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Natural Resource and Environment, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran.
Ghasem Rajaei
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Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resource and Environment, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran.
Robabeh Vajdi Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Environmental, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

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The purpose of the present study was to determine the acute toxicity (LC₅₀) of HgCl₂ and CuSO₄ in Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus) and CuSO₄ in Caspian kutum (Rutilus kutum). The Caspian roach LC₅₀ values for HgCl₂ at 24, 48, 72, and 96-hrs of exposure, were 0.64, 0.61, 0.42, and 0.28 mg L^-1, respectively, and for CuSO₄ were 11.55, 5.08, 2.49, and 1.47 mg L^-1, respectively. The Caspian roach LC₅₀ values for CuSO₄ at 24, 48, 72, and 96-hrs of exposure, were 5.31, 4.17, 3.20, and 2.25 mg L^-1, respectively. The results of this study showed that the toxicity of HgCl₂ is higher than that of CuSO₄ for the studied species. The mortality decreased with time, and most of the deaths were occurred during the first 24 hrs.

Pourkhabbaz, A., Mansouri, B., Sinkakarimi, M. H., Rajaei, G., & Vajdi, R. (2016). Acute toxicity bioassay of the mercury chloride and copper Sulphate in Rutilus caspicus and Rutilus kutum. International Journal of Aquatic Biology, 4(1), 25–30. https://doi.org/10.22034/ijab.v4i1.119

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