Organochlorine and total mercury in bivalve Anadara tuberculosa and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica in 1988

Elba de la Cruz; Katrien Delbeke; Katrien Delbeke; Claude Joiris

doi:10.14284/226

Organochlorine and total mercury in bivalve Anadara tuberculosa and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica in 1988

Citation

de la Cruz E.; Delbeke K.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME); Laboratory of Ecotoxicology. VUB: Belgium; (2016): Organochlorine and total mercury in bivalve Anadara tuberculosa and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica in 1988. (http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5044) https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/226 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

Contamination level by PCB, organochlorines pesticides and mercury for Anadara tuberculosa and other species at Punta Morales, Puerto Alto and Jicaral during 2 sampling periods in 1988. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: de la Cruz, E. (1989). Organochlorine and total mercury in the Anadara tuberculosa bivalve and other species from the Nicoya Gulf, Costa Rica. MSc Thesis. KBIN: Brussel. 59 pp.

Additional info

Evaluation of the contamination level at three different localities of the Nicoya Gulf (Punta Morales, Puerto Alto and Jicaral). To fulfill this purpose a filter feeder bivalve mollusc Anadara tuberculosa (Arcidae) was chosen. In order to compare the contamination levels between the 3 places standardization was done on sex, maturity, size, lipid contents and sampling period (September and December 1988). Samples were cut in pieces and well mixed and then subsampled 3 times for mercury analysis, PCB and organochlorine and dryweight and carbon analysis.

Taxonomic Coverages

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105

Bivalvia
rank: class

Geographic Coverages

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

ISE, Costa Rica, Gulf of Nicoya

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Elba de la Cruz
originator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program

Katrien Delbeke
originator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecotoxicologie en Polaire Ecologie

Claude Joiris
originator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecotoxicologie en Polaire Ecologie

originator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program

originator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecotoxicologie en Polaire Ecologie

metadata author
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
BE
email: info@vliz.be
homepage: https://www.vliz.be

custodian steward
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
BE
email: info@vliz.be

administrative point of contact
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
BE
email: info@vliz.be