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

eng Ansari Education and Research Society Journal of Ultra Chemistry 0973-3450 2319-8036 April 2009 5 1 111 115 juc 690 article 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 Ibrahim N. Al-Suwiti 1 Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O.Box 2455, Riyadh 11451 (Saudi Arabia) 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.     https://journalofchemistry.org/paper/690/ Metals Crab Seasonal variation Red Sea.