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Assessment of Acute and Short-Term Developmental Toxicity of Mercury Chloride to Rare Minnow (Gobiocypris rarus)

Journal

WATER
Volume 14, Issue 18, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w14182825

Keywords

acute toxicity; developmental toxicity; embryos; Hg2+; rare minnow

Funding

  1. Projects of Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology [2021YFS0359, 2021YFN0033, 2022NSFSC0129]
  2. Foundation of Ph.D. Scientific Research of Neijiang Normal University [18B13]
  3. research project of Neijiang Normal University [Z2019068]
  4. Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province [C2019204360]
  5. Science and Technology Project of Hebei Education Department [QN2020132]

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This study investigated the toxic effects of mercury on different life stages of rare minnow and determined the safe level of exposure. The findings showed that newly hatched larvae were the most sensitive to mercury toxicity, while embryos were the most resistant.
Mercury (Hg), as the most potentially hazardous heavy metal, has accumulated in the aquatic environment and has caused concern about its safety. To test the toxic effects of mercury chloride (Hg2+) on rare minnow (Gobiocypris rarus), the acute toxicity of Hg2+ to embryos, newly hatched larvae, juvenile fish, and the short-term developmental toxicity of Hg2+ to the embryo and sac-fry stages, were investigated. The 96-h LC50 values of Hg2+ to embryos, newly hatched larvae, and juvenile fish were 0.56, 0.07, and 0.10 mg/L, respectively, suggesting newly hatched larvae were the most sensitive, followed by juvenile fish, while embryos were the most resistant in response to an Hg2+ challenge. The research data revealed that the safe level of Hg2+ exposure for rare minnow was 0.7 mu g/L. In addition, the LOEC (lowest observed effect concentration) and NOEC (no observed effect concentration) values of Hg2+ to heartbeat, mortality, malformation rate, and body length of survived larvae were identically, 0.05 and 0.01 mg/L, respectively. These findings indicated that Hg2+ had lethal effects on rare minnow at different life stages, and that newly hatched larvae were the most sensitive stage. The above findings have important implications for better understanding the environmental risk assessment of Hg2+ on aquatic organisms.

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