The Relative Resistance of Thirteen Species of Fishes to Petroleum Refinery Effluent
Twelve species of fishes native to Oklahoma were each tested four times in a series of twenty bioassays, and the guppy was included in each bioassay as a reference. The 24-hour median tolerance limits (TLm's) were determined. The relative sensitivity of each species was established. In a 50/0 multiple range test, the species were grouped into the following six statistical populations: (1); (2); (3-5); (4-10); (5-12); and (6-13). In the following ranked list, numbers in parentheses (also the rank numbers of the species) indicate the statistical populations to which the species could belong...
