Comparative Aquatic Toxicity of Gold Nanoparticles and Ionic Gold Using a Species Sensitivity Distribution Approach

Table 5

Acute toxicity data from the published literature that were included used to derive the SSDs.

Test species	Endpoint	Duration (h)	LC50; HAuCl4 (mg/L)	Reference
Arthropods
D. magna	LC50	48	2	Li et al. [40]
D. magna	LC50	48	0.64	Nam et al. [41]
D. magna	LC50	48	0.15	This study
D. pulex	LC50	48	0.01	This study
M. macrocopa	LC50	48	0.62	Nam et al. [40]
Fish
D. rerio	LC50	96	4.85	This study
P. reticulata	LC50	96	20.58	This study
T. sparrmanii	LC50	96	10.78	This study
P. philander	LC50	96	7.53	This study
O. mossambicus	LC50	96	11.3	This study
L. aeneus	LC50	96	0.93	This study
T. arcticus	LC50	96	14.4	Nam et al. [41]
O. mykiss	LC50	96	10.7	Nam et al. [41]
O. kisutch	LC50	96	14.1	Nam et al. [41]