The ICRP Reference Animals and Plants


Bee Terrestrial Apidea See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apidae
Brown Seaweed Marine Fucaceae Ascophyllum, Fucus, Hesperophycus, Pelvetia, Pelvetiopsis, Silvetia & Xiphophora species
Crab Marine Cancridae See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancridae
Deer Terrestrial Cervidae See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervidae#Subfamilies.2C_genera_and_species
Duck Terrestrial, Freshwater Anatidae Ducks, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck), geese (Anser spp., Chen spp. & Branta spp.) & swans (Cygnus spp.)
Earthworm Terrestrial Lumbricidae See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbricidae
Flatfish Marine Pleuronectidae See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuronectidae
Frog Terrestrial, Freshwater Ranidae See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranidae
Pine Tree Terrestrial Pinaceae See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinaceae
Rat Terrestrial Muridae Old World rats and mice (Murinae), gerbils, jirds and sand rats (Gerbillinae) as well as Leimacomys buettneri, Lophiomys imhausi and the Subfamily Deomyinae
Salmonid Freshwater, Marine Salmonidae Freshwater white fish (Coregoninae), Grayling (Thymallus spp.) and the Subfamily Salmoninea which includes salmon (Salmo spp. & Oncorhynchus spp.) trout (Salmo spp. & Salvelinus spp.) & chars (Salvelinus spp.)
Wild Grass Terrestrial, Freshwater Poaceae Grasses (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Poaceae_genera)

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