Sensitivity of freshwater pulmonate snails, Lymnaea luteolo L. , to heavy metals
The current alarm of the impacts of metal pollution on living organisms has received much attention with the tragedy of Minimata and later Niigata, in Japan. Although there has been a great deal of the concern about the acute and chronic toxicities of heavy metals to freshwater fishes and crustaceans but little information is available on the effects of heavy metals to freshwater snails, which are widely distributed in the aquatic environment. The present study was undertaken to determine the acute toxicities of selected heavy metals to a freshwater pond snail Lymnaea luteolo Lamarck; a locally abundant species and play an important role in the aquatic food chain(s). Static bioassays were conducted with the salts of cadmium, copper, chromium, mercury, nickel, silver and zinc in hard water.
- Research Organization:
- Industrial Toxicology Research Centre, Lucknow (India)
- OSTI ID:
- 6655720
- Journal Information:
- Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.; (United States), Vol. 41:2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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METALS
TOXICITY
SNAILS
SENSITIVITY
CADMIUM COMPOUNDS
CALCIUM CARBONATES
CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS
MERCURY COMPOUNDS
MORTALITY
NICKEL COMPOUNDS
SILVER COMPOUNDS
ZINC COMPOUNDS
ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
CALCIUM COMPOUNDS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBONATES
ELEMENTS
INVERTEBRATES
MOLLUSCS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
560300* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology