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VOL. 6, ISSUE 4 (2021)
Effects of organophosphate pesticide chloropyrifos on fresh water Snail
Authors
Jeeva PS
Abstract
The indiscriminate use of pesticides in the agricultural land and affects the aquatic ecosystem adjacent to it. Aquatic Snails are cosmopolitan in distribution and found in the entire fresh water ecosystem like pond, swamp, and ditches. In Kanyakumari district most of the aquatic ecosystem is adjacent to the agricultural land. Chloropyrifos is very highly toxic to freshwater snail and it accumulates in the tissues and also causes significant biochemical alteration in the living system. In the present study shows exposure period 24, 48, 72, 96, and 108h LC50 value of chloropyrifos of snail sp. were increased with increase in mortality. After that the last (108h) in the animal acclimatized in experimental water because in the snail has the capacity to live in any water oxygen low or high concentration turbid water. So the mortality rates decrease in 0.6% concentration of exposure 108h. The present study reveals since very minimum contact toxicity were observed when the animals are exposed to short term. There is mild change in the protein, carbohydrate and fat analysed in the liver and muscle of the snail.
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Pages:120-122
How to cite this article:
Jeeva PS "Effects of organophosphate pesticide chloropyrifos on fresh water Snail ". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 6, Issue 4, 2021, Pages 120-122
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