Higher bioavailability and contamination by copper in the edible mussels, snails and horseshoe crabs at Kampung Pasir Puteh: evidence of an industrial effluent receiving site at Pasir Gudang area

• Main Authors: Yap, Chee Kong, Weiyun, Chew, Wan, Hee Cheng, Okamura, Hideo, Harino, Hiroya, Shih, Hao Tony Peng, Ismail, Mohamad Supi, Chee, Seng Leow
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Crimson Publishers 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80065/1/Higher%20bioavailability%20and%20contamination%20by%20copper%20in%20the%20edible%20mussels%2C%20snails%20and%20horseshoe%20crabs%20at%20Kampung%20Pasir%20Puteh%20evidence%20of%20an%20industrial%20effluent%20receiving%20site%20at%20Pasir%20Gudang%20Area.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/80065/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334277830_Higher_Bioavailability_and_Contamination_by_Copper_in_the_Edible_Mussels_Snails_and_Horseshoe_Crabs_at_Kampung_Pasir_Puteh_Evidence_of_an_Industrial_Effluent_Receiving_Site_at_Pasir_Gudang_Area
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

This paper determined the heavy metal concentrations (Cd, Cu, Fe, Pb, Ni and Zn) in the different soft tissues of mussel Perna viridis, mudflat snail Telescopium telescopium, and horseshoe crabs (Carcinoscor-pius rotundicauda and Tachypleus gigas), and their habitat surface sediments from an industr...