Journal
WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION
Volume 223, Issue 9, Pages 5917-5930Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-012-1328-9
Keywords
Turbot; Early life stage; Acute toxicity; Sublethal effects; Pesticides
Funding
- MAE-PCI (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain)
- Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology in Tunisia
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MCINN) through the research project Environmental Quality Criteria for Marine Ecosystems (ENVICRISYS)
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The present study evaluated the short-term toxicity of seven selected pesticides: four insecticides (chlorpyrifos, dieldrin, diazinon and pirimiphosmethyl) and three herbicides (diuron, alachlor and atrazine). With this aim, a standard toxicity test with the highly sensitive early life stages (ELS) of a marine fish was used. The turbot, Psetta maxima, is abundant in shallow estuarine and costal habitats and is currently the most commonly cultivated fish species in Galicia, NW Spain. According to the turbot ELS test results, chlorpyrifos was the most toxic pesticide tested for both embryos and larvae and was followed in order of decreasing toxicity by dieldrin, pirimiphos-methyl, diazinon, alachlor, atrazine and diuron. Larvae were more sensitive than embryos to the seven pesticides. The median lethal concentrations of the selected pesticides during a 48- and a 96-h exposure for turbot embryos and larvae were, respectively (in micrograms per litre): chlorpyrifos, 116.6 and 94.65; dieldrin, 146 and 97; pirimiphos-methyl, 560 and 452; diazinon, 1,837 and 1,230; alachlor, 2,177 and 2,233; diuron, 10,076 and 7,826; and atrazine, 11,873 and 9,957. According to their acute toxicity, the insecticides were more toxic than the herbicides. Furthermore, all insecticides and herbicides appear to be teratogenic to turbot ELS.
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