Salinity tolerance and osmoregulation of Taeniomembers microstomus (Gunther, 1861) (Pisces: Mugiliformes: Atherinidae) from Australian salt lakes
LC Lui
Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 20(2) 157 - 162
Abstract Salinity tolerance and osmoregulation of a population of Taeniomembras
microstomus were studied. Results indicated that this atherinid fish is extremely euryhaline.
Probit analysis revealed that the upper and lower L.D.50 values for salinity
were 108‰ and 3.3‰, respectively. Salinity tolerance was apparently independent of
acclimation, Taeniomembras microstomus has remarkable hypo-osmoregulatory abilities.
The freezing point depression of body fluid varied from 0.558º to 2.729º when fish
were exposed to a salinity range of 5-120‰.
Full text doi:10.1071/MF9690157
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