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Ingested microplastics (>100μm) are translocated to organs of the tropical fiddler crab Uca rapax
Abstract
Microplastics, which are accumulating in marine sediments, are assumed to pose a risk for deposit feeding invertebrates. We tested whether the fiddler crab Uca rapax ingests and retains microplastics in its body. Furthermore, we investigated whether retention rates depend on (a) the quality of the marine environment in which the plastics were pre-weathered and on (b) their abundance. For this, polystyrene pellets were submersed at a polluted and a pristine site near Niterói, Brazil, for 2 weeks. Then specimens of U. rapax were, in laboratory experiments, exposed to fragments (180-250 μm) derived from these pellets for 2 months. After this period, microplastics were observed in the gills, stomach and hepatopancreas of the animals. However, fragment retention was not influenced by the two factors that we manipulated. The presence of microplastics in different organs of the crab supports the assumption that these particles have the potential to harm marine invertebrates.
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“Taxonomic groups in which PS MPs were detected include the marine copepods Acartia spp.and Eurytemora affinis (Setälä et al., 2014), large crustaceans such as the estuarine mysid Neomysis integer (Setälä et al., 2014) and the crab Uca rapax (Brennecke et al., 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brennecke, D., Ferreira, E. C., Costa, T. M. M., Appel, D., da Gama, B. A. P., & Lenz, M.
- Affiliations
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (DE)
- Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (BR)
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Brennecke, Dennis
- Venue
- Marine Pollution Bulletin
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-07
- Volume
- 96
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 491-495
- ISSN
- 0025-326X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W405729463
- Cited by
- 266
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 4
- FWCI
- 9.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Marine Pollution Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Müllverbrennung Kiel
- CAPES foundation
- CNPq
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Keywords
- microplastics, Uca rapax, fiddler crabs, microplastic ingestion, microplastic retention, marine pollution, gill, hepatopancreas, stomach, plastic weathering, tropical marine invertebrates
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brazil, Brachyura, Environment, Gills, Male, Plastics, Polystyrenes, Shellfish, Stomach, Tissue Distribution, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Geologic Sediments, Hepatopancreas
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