Abstract
Penaeid shrimps are important resources for worldwide fisheries and aquaculture. In Brazil, Litopenaeus schmitti is animportant commercially exploited species, and the ideal animal for studying the impairment caused by the effects ofheavy metals often detected in coastal areas. The main purpose of the present study was to detect the acute toxicity of lead(Pb) in L. schmitti and to investigate its effect on oxygen consumption and ammonia excretion for different salinities. Thishas not been studied in this species before. Lead was significantly more toxic at salinity 8 than at 20 and 33. The oxygenconsumption and ammonia excretion were estimated through experiments performed on each of the fifteen possiblecombinations of three salinities (33, 20 and 8), at the temperature of 21 °C. Cadmium showed a significant improvementin oxygen consumption at salinity 8, and results show that the oxygen consumption increases with respect to the leadconcentration. At the highest lead concentration employed (2.12 10-2 mg/L), the salinity 8 and the temperature at 21 °C,oxygen consumption increases 131% in relation to the control. In addition, after separate exposure to lead, elevation inammonia excretion was obtained, which was 88.2% higher than the control. The results show that lead is more toxic to L.schmitti at lower salinities.
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