An assessment of five Australian polychaetes and bivalves for use in whole-sediment toxicity tests: toxicity and accumulation of copper and zinc from water and sediment

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Catherine K KingDianne Jolley

Abstract

The suitability of two polychaete worms, Australonereis ehlersi and Nephtys australiensis, and three bivalves, Mysella anomala, Tellina deltoidalis, and Soletellina alba, were assessed for their potential use in whole-sediment toxicity tests. All species except A. ehlersi, which could not be tested because of poor survival in water-only tests, survived in salinities ranging from 18 per thousand to 34 per thousand during the 96-hour exposure period. No mortality was observed in any of the species exposed to sediment compositions ranging from 100% silt to 100% sand for 10 days, thus demonstrating the high tolerance of the five species to a wide range of sediment types. All species showed decreased survival after exposure to highly sulfidic sediments in 10-day whole-sediment tests. In 96-hour water-only tests, survival decreased, and copper accumulation in body tissues increased with exposure to increasing copper concentration for all species except A. ehlersi, which again could not be tested because of its poor survival in the absence of sediment. S. alba and T. deltoidalis were the most sensitive species to aqueous copper (LC50s of 120 and 150 microg Cu/L, respectively). All species tested were relatively insensitive to dissolve...Continue Reading

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