PMID: 9175516May 1, 1997Paper

Rock-shells (Thais clavigera) as an indicator of As, Cu, and Zn contamination on the Putai Coast of the black-foot disease area in Taiwan

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
B C HanY L Huang

Abstract

This study presents the distribution of arsenic (As), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) in various seafoods-oysters (Crassostrea gigas), false fusus (Hemifuscus tuba), venus clams (Cyclina sineasis), green mussels (Perna viridis), blood clams (Arca granosa), flounders (Psettodes erumei), and rock-shells (Thais clavigera) collected from the Putai coast of the black-foot disease (BFD) area in Taiwan. Special attention is paid to evaluate the relationships among As, Cu, and Zn and effect of body size on metal concentration in Thais clavigera. Maximum Zn and Cu geometric mean (GM) concentrations (GM = 615 and 376 microg/g, dry wt, respectively) are found in oysters (Crassostrea gigas), and the values are much higher than those of the other organisms by about 1.7-208 and 1.8-375 times, respectively. Similarly, Thais clavigera has a high capacity for accumulating Cu and Zn collected from the same location. One interesting point is that relatively high As concentrations (GM = 65.7 microg/g, dry wt) in Thais clavigera are found as compared with those in other organisms (range from GM = 2.37 to 40.2 microg/g, dry wt). The As concentrations are significantly higher in Thais clavigera (1.62-27.7 times) than those in other organisms (p < 0.05), e...Continue Reading

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