7092

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7092
• Author: Eisler, R.
• Title: Arsenic Hazards to Fish, Wildlife, and Invertebrates
• USFW Year: 1988.
• USFW - Doc Type: A Synoptic Review.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 2. (continued)
Ecosystem, species, and Concentration, Referenceb
other variables in mg/kg
Oil (155-221) DW 2
Fatty acid (8-36) DW 2
Alga, Laminaria hyperborea
Total arsenic 142 DW 12
Organic arsenic 139 DW 12
Sargassum weed, Sargassum fluitans
ToW arsenic 19.5 FW 7
As
+S 1.8 FW 7
As 17.7 FW 7
Organoarsenicals 0.2 FW 7
Seaweed, Sargassum sp.
To IV arsenic (4.1-8.7) FW 5
As
+S (0.14-0.35) FW 5
As (1.9-7.3) FW 5
Organoarsenicals Max. 0.1 FW 5
Seaweeds
Whole (3.8-93.8) DW 2
Whole (10-109) DW 12
Oil fraction (5.7-221) FW 12
MARINE MOLLUSCS
Ivory shell, Buccinum striatissimum
Muscle
Total arsenic 38 FW 14
Arsenobetaine 24.2 FW 14
Midgut gland
Total arsenic 18 FW 14
Arsenobetaine 10.8 FW 14
Oysters, Crassostrea spp.
Soft parts (1.3-10) DW,
(0.3-3.4) FW 12
American oyster, Crassostrea
virginica
Soft parts 2.9 FW 1
Soft parts 10.3 DW 15
Spindle shells, Hemifusus spp.
Hong Kong 1984, Muscle
Total arsenic Max. 500 FW 16
Inorganic arsenic <0.5 FW 16
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