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Table 2.
Metadata for PCBs and DDTs in blubber (µg/g
lipid basis weight) of selected cetacean's species reported from 1980 to 2012.
Species
Conservation Status
Location
(Country, State)
No. Samples
(sex)
Year
∑
PCBs
∑
DDTs
Reference
Pontoporia
blainvillei
Vulnerable
SAO
(Argentina)
74
1988-1992
2 ± 1
1.6 ± 1.6
Borrel et al. 1995
SAO
(Argentina)
8
1991-1996
3.4 ± 2.0
Castello et al. 2000
SAO
(Brazil)
32
1991-1996
1.3 ± 0.5
Castello et al. 2000
SAO
(Brazil)
10
-
3 ± 2
1.6 ± 16
Lailson-Brito et al.
2011
1-6
0-6
SAO
(Brazil)
5
1999-2000
4
2
Yogui 2002
1-6
0.8-3.0
SAO
(Brazil)
8
1997-2003
4 ± 3
2 ± 2
Yogui et al. 2010
0.5-10.0
0-7
SAO
(Brazil)
26 (adults)
1994-2004
4 ± 2
1.0 ± 0.8
Leonel et al. 2010
1-11
0.2-3.5
SAO
(Brazil)
16 (males)
1999
3
4
Kajiwara et al. 2004
10 (females)
2
2.5
SAO
(Brazil)
10 (males
a
)
2001-2007
13
3
Alonso 2008
3-20
1-7
11 (females
a
)
3
0.7
0.3-8.0
0.1-2.4
