Allorchestes compressa

Copepod, Acartia tonsa 31 pg/L for 96 h Amphipod, Allorchestes compressa LC50 1... 

Ahsanullah, M. and A.R. Williams. 1991. Sublethal effects and bioaccumulation of cadmium, chromium, copper and zinc in the marine amphipod Allorchestes compressa. Mar. Biol. 108 59-65. 

Mixtures of zinc and copper are generally acknowledged to be more-than-additive in toxicity to a wide variety of aquatic organisms, including oyster larvae (Sprague 1986), marine fishes (Eisler and Gardner 1973 Eisler 1984), freshwater fishes (Skidmore 1964 Hilmy etal. 1987b) and amphipods (de March 1988), and marine copepods (Sunda et al. 1987 Verriopoulos and Dimas 1988). But Zn-Cu mixtures were less-than-additive in toxicity to marine amphipods (Allorchestes compressa Ahsanullah et al. 1988). 

Ahsanullah, M., M.C. Mobley, and P. Rankin. 1988. Individual and combined effects of zinc, cadmium and copper on the marine amphipod Allorchestes compressa. Austral. Jour. Mar. Freshwater Res. 39 33-37. 

Ahsanullah, M. and Florence, T. M. (1984). Toxicity of copper to the marine amphiphod Allorchestes compressa in the presence of water- and lipid-soluble ligands, Marine Biol., 84, 41-45. 

Burridge TR, Lavery T, Lam PKS. 1995a. Acute toxicity tests using Phyllospora comosa (labillardiere) c. agardh (phaeophyta fucales) and Allorchestes compressa dana (crustacea amphipoda). Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 55 621-628. 

Gulec and Holdway studied the toxicity of oil and the dispersant Corexit 9527 to the amphipod, Allorchestes compressa (73). They found that the mean m = 4) acute 96-hour LC50 for A. compressa exposed to Corexit 9527 was 3 mg/L, to dispersed crude oil was 16.2 mg/L, and for the water-accommodated fraction of Bass Strait crude oil was 311,000 mg/L. Sub-lethal effects were also measured for a 30-minute exposure. The EC50 (threshold for sub-lethal effects) was found to be 50.2 mg/L for Corexit 9527, 64.4 mg/L for Corexit 9527, 65.4 mg/L for dispersed crude oil, and 190,000 mg/L for the water-accommodated fraction of Bass Strait crude oil. 

Chua, E., Shimeta, J., Nugegoda, D., Morrison, P.D., and Clarke, B.O. 2014. Assimilation of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers from Microplastics by the Marine Amphipod, Allorchestes Compressa. Environmental Science Technology. 

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