Non-standard laboratory tests

We have experience in addressing special questions in environmental risk assessment with acute and chronic laboratory tests with non-standard species and/or non-standard design.

Possible test species are for example:

 

 Insects:

  • Mayflies (Ephemeroptera; e.g. Cloeon dipterum)
  • Caddisflies (Trichoptera; e.g. Hydropsyche incognita, Lasiocephala basalis, Rhyacophila spp.)
  • Phantom midges (Chaoboridae; e.g. Chaoborus obscuripes, Chaoborus crystallinus)
  • Non-biting midges (Chironomidae)
  • Water bugs (e.g. Notonecta glauca)

 

Crustacea:

  • Isopods (e.g. Asellus aquaticus)
  • Amphipods (e.g. Gammarus pulex, Gammarus roeseli, Gammarus fossarum, Crangonyx pseudogracilis, Hyalella azteca)
  • Phyllopods (e.g. Daphnia longispina, Daphnia pulex, Simocephalus sp., Chydorus sp.)
  • Copepods (different species depending on season)
  • Decapods (e.g. Neocaridina sp.)

 

Rotifera:

  • depending on season, e.g.
  • Brachionus spp.
  • Keratella quadrata
  • Lecane spp.

 

Mollusca:

  • Gastropoda (e.g. Potamopyrgus antipodarum, Lymnea stagnalis)

 

 Oligochaeta:

  • Naididae

 

Algae:

  • Special freshwater species are available on request, e.g.
  • Ankistrodemus falcatus
  • Aphanothece clathrata
  • Chlorella vulgaris
  • Chroococcus minutus
  • Nitzschia palea
  • Scenedesmus obliquus

 

 

 

 
 

MESOCOSM GmbH
Institut für Gewässerschutz

Neu-Ulrichstein 5
D-35315 Homberg (Ohm)
Germany

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