# ISO 9391:1993 — Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards For ISO 9391:1993, item title is Water quality — Sampling in deep waters for macro-invertebrates — Guidance on the use of colonization, qualitative and quantitative samplers; status code is 9599; successor is ISO 10870:2012; withdrawn / published date is 1993-10-21, recorded from its source on 2026-08-05. - **Identifier:** ISO 9391:1993 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Item title:** Water quality — Sampling in deep waters for macro-invertebrates — Guidance on the use of colonization, qualitative and quantitative samplers _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Status code:** 9599 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **Successor:** ISO 10870:2012 - **Withdrawn / published date:** 1993-10-21 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ ## What the source says > 17083,IS,,ISO 9391:1993,"Water quality — Sampling in deep waters for macro-invertebrates — Guidance on the use of colonization, qualitative and quantitative samplers","Qualité de l'eau — Échantillonnage de macro-invertébrés en eaux profondes — Guide d'utilisation des échantillonneurs de colonisation, qualitatifs et quantitatifs",1993-10-21,1,"['13.060.10','13.060.45']",ISO/TC 147/SC 5,9599,,[46251],"['en','fr']",13,"

The colonization samplers described allow water quality to be assessed by providing a collection of macro-invertebrates indicative of the water quality at the sites of concern. They do not sample the natural invertebrate fauna, which may be restricted by physical conditions un ## Source - https://isopublicstorageprod.blob.core.windows.net/opendata/_latest/iso_deliverables_metadata/csv/iso_deliverables_metadata.csv Last verified: 2026-08-05. Review by: 2027-02-01. Part of [Withdrawn and superseded ISO standards](https://referencesource.org/iso-standard-supersessions/).