POTENTIAL TOXICITY OF THE FRESH-WATER CHRYSOCHROMULINA SPECIES C-PARVA (PRYMNESIOPHYCEAE)

Authors
HANSEN LR KRISTIANSEN J RASMUSSEN JV
Citation
Lr. Hansen et al., POTENTIAL TOXICITY OF THE FRESH-WATER CHRYSOCHROMULINA SPECIES C-PARVA (PRYMNESIOPHYCEAE), Hydrobiologia, 287(2), 1994, pp. 157-159
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Hydrobiologia → ACNP
ISSN journal
00188158
Volume
287
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
157 - 159
Database
ISI
SICI code
0018-8158(1994)287:2<157:PTOTFC>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A mass development of Chrysochromulina parva Lackey - 614000 cells per ml, associated with fish mortality, is reported from a small Danish l ake. None of the analyses performed showed any reason for the fish kil l. Even oxygen conditions were favourable. Thus toxins from the Chryso chromulina might be responsible for the fish kill. If true, this would be the first record of toxicity in a freshwater Chrysochromulina.