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Species Sensitivity Data provided by the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment, Australia. This data underpins the ANZG default guideline for chlorine in marine water.

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 29 rows and 8 columns.

Details

These data are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (summary of terms provided here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Additional information is available from the Water Quality website at https://www.waterquality.gov.au/

Please cite these data as: ANZG (2026). “Toxicant default guideline values for aquatic ecosystem protection: Chlorine in marine water.” Australian and New Zealand Governments and Australian State and Territory Governments, Canberra, Australia. https://www.waterquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/chlorine-marine-dgvs-technical-brief.pdf.

The columns are as follows:

Conc

The chemical concentration in micrograms per Litre (dbl).

Duration

The duration of the test in days (chr).

Genus

The Genus name (chr).

Group

The taxonomic group (chr).

Life_stage

Life stage of the test organism (chr).

Species

The species binomial name (chr).

Toxicity_measure

The toxicity measure used (chr).

Units

The concentration units of Conc (micrograms per Litre, ug/L) (chr).

Where toxicity measure is not a chronic NEC, EC10 or NOEC value, concentration has been converted using the appropriate default ratio, as follows: 10 from acute EC50/LC50 to chronic EC10; 5 from chronic EC50 to EC10; 2.5 from LOEC to EC10. Please see the primary reference material for more information.

Examples


print(anzg_chlorine_marine, n=Inf)
#> # A tibble: 29 × 8
#>      Conc Duration    Genus      Group Life_stage Species Toxicity_measure Units
#>     <dbl> <chr>       <chr>      <chr> <chr>      <chr>   <chr>            <chr>
#>  1    6.4 0.003470833 Dendraster Echi… Sperm      excent… Acute EC50       ug/L 
#>  2   90   0.020833333 Brachionus Roti… Not stated plicat… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#>  3   23   4           Crassostr… Moll… Larva      virgin… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#>  4   29   4           Acartia    Crus… Not stated tonsa   Acute LC50       ug/L 
#>  5  687   4           Pontogene… Crus… Adult      sp.     Acute LC50       ug/L 
#>  6  145   4           Anonyx     Crus… Adult      sp.     Acute LC50       ug/L 
#>  7 2890   0.041666667 Homarus    Crus… Larva      americ… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#>  8  162   4           Neomysis   Crus… Adult      sp.     Acute LC50       ug/L 
#>  9   68   4           Mysidopsis Crus… Juvenile   bahia   Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 10  178   4           Pandalus   Crus… Juvenile … danae   Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 11   90   4           Pandalus   Crus… Adult      gonurus Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 12  134   4           Crangon    Crus… Adult      nigric… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 13  220   4           Palaemone… Crus… Adult      pugio   Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 14 1420   4           Hemigraps… Crus… Juvenile … nudus   Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 15   54   4           Menidia    Fish  Fry        penins… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 16   24   4           Pleuronec… Fish  Larva      plates… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 17   32   4           Oncorhync… Fish  Juvenile   kisutch Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 18   65   4           Clupea     Fish  Juvenile   hareng… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 19  167   4           Gasterost… Fish  Juvenile … aculea… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 20   71   4           Cymatogas… Fish  Juvenile … aggreg… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 21   82   4           Ammodytes  Fish  Juvenile … hexapt… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 22   73   4           Parophrys  Fish  Juvenile   vetulus Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 23   37   4           Menidia    Fish  Juvenile   menidia Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 24  135   4           Menidia    Fish  Juvenile   beryll… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 25  270   4           Syngnathus Fish  Juvenile   fuscus  Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 26   80   4           Gobiosoma  Fish  Juvenile   bosci   Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 27  270   3.166666667 Morone     Fish  Egg        americ… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 28  200   2           Morone     Fish  Egg        saxati… Acute LC50       ug/L 
#> 29  240   2           Alosa      Fish  Egg        aestiv… Acute LC50       ug/L