Trace metals in vertebral columns of deep-sea teleost fish

Biol Trace Elem Res. 2001 Jun;80(3):245-9. doi: 10.1385/bter:80:3:245.

Abstract

Deep-sea teleost fish were collected from the Sagami Bay near a deep fissure in the Pacific Ocean. Fish were identified as Chlorophthalmis albatrosis, Engyprosopan xystrias, Satyrichthys hians, Ventrifossa garmani, and Halieutaea stellata. The Etmopterus lucifer is not a teleost, but a deep-sea shark. Just after being caught and fixed in neutral 20% formol, the vertebral column was resected and prepared for measurement by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry. Trace elements were found to be Al, Si, Ti, Fe, Cu, Cd, Zn, and Hg at micrograms per gram levels. Major elements were Mg, Ca, P, and S at the milligram per gram level. Some of trace elements, Zn and Hg, were also usually found at this level.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Fishes / classification
  • Fishes / metabolism*
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Sharks / metabolism
  • Spectrophotometry, Atomic
  • Spine / chemistry*
  • Trace Elements / analysis*
  • Trace Elements / metabolism

Substances

  • Trace Elements