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), Journal Name: Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.; (United States) Vol. 41:2; ISSN BECTA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS
ANIMALS
AQUATIC ORGANISMS
CADMIUM COMPOUNDS
CALCIUM CARBONATES
CALCIUM COMPOUNDS
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBONATES
CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS
ELEMENTS
INVERTEBRATES
MERCURY COMPOUNDS
METALS
MOLLUSCS
MORTALITY
NICKEL COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
SENSITIVITY
SILVER COMPOUNDS
SNAILS
TOXICITY
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
ZINC COMPOUNDS