Determination of Metal Levels in Thirteen Fish Species from Lakshadweep Sea

作者：Dhaneesh Kottila Veettil^*; Gopi Mohan; Noushad Kunnamgalam Mohammed; Ganeshamurthy Raghunathan; Kumar Thipramalai Thankappan Ajith; Balasubramanian Thangavel

来源：Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2012, 88(1): 69-73.

DOI：10.1007/s00128-011-0459-9

• Demersal fish
• Metals
• Tissues
• Agatti coast

A bio-monitoring study was performed to investigate the concentration of certain metals (cadmium, cobalt, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, nickel, lead and zinc) in gill, skin and muscle of thirteen demersal fish species of Agatti Coast of Lakshadweep Sea. All the metal concentrations in gill are higher than skin and muscle. Concentrations of toxic metals such as Cd (0.61 +/- 0.67 lg g(-1) in Gerres longirostris), Mn (0.83 +/- 1.21 lg g(-1) in Lutjanus fulvus) and Ni (0.56 +/- 0.83 lg g(-1) in L. bengalensis) were well above the permissible limits suggested by World Health Organization and Food and Agricultural Organizations.

• 出版日期2012-1