Seasonal Variation and Tissue Distribution of Heavy Metals in Ocypodid Crab Uca inverse and in Grapsid Crab Metopograpsus messor Collected from Red Sea Saudi Arabia
Author & Affiliation:
Ibrahim N. Al-Suwiti
Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O.Box 2455, Riyadh 11451 (Saudi Arabia)
Keyword:
Metals, Crab, Seasonal variation, Red Sea.
Issue Date:
April 2009
Abstract:
The distribution of three heavy metals (Cd, Zn, Pb) were detected in muscle and gills of two crab species namely Uca inverse and Metopograpsus messor, collected from Al-shogig coast Red Sea, during winter and summer 2008. Lead and zinc were most abundant in all crab tissues under investigation at both winter and summer. Zinc, lead, and cadmium recorded highest concentration levels in gills, and low in muscles. According to the previous studies, these value of concentrations are low, thus there is no risk yet for human or other marine organism consumption of flesh of these crabs.
Pages:
111-115
ISSN:
2319-8036 (Online) - 0973-3450 (Print)
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DOI:
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I. N. Al-suwiti, "Seasonal Variation and Tissue Distribution of Heavy Metals in Ocypodid Crab Uca inverse and in Grapsid Crab Metopograpsus messor Collected from Red Sea Saudi Arabia ", Journal of Ultra Chemistry, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page Number 111-115, 2018Copy the following to cite this URL:
I. N. Al-suwiti, "Seasonal Variation and Tissue Distribution of Heavy Metals in Ocypodid Crab Uca inverse and in Grapsid Crab Metopograpsus messor Collected from Red Sea Saudi Arabia ", Journal of Ultra Chemistry, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page Number 111-115, 2018Available from: http://journalofchemistry.org/paper/690/
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