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Table 10.6
A Summary of Selected Studies on the ingestion of
Microparticles by Marine invertebrates
Source: Reprinted with permission from Cole et al. (2011).
Organism(s)
Microplastics
(µm)
Identification
techniques
Publications
Copepods (
Acartia
tonsa
)
7-70
Microscopy
Wilson (1973)
Echinoderm larvae
10-20
Video
observation
Hart (1991)
Trochophore larvae
(
Galeolaria caespitosa
)
3-10
Microscopy
Bolton and
Havenhand
(1998)
Scallop (
Placopecten
magellanicus
)
16-18
Detection of
51
Cr labeled
particles
Brillant and
MacDonald
(2002)
Amphipods (
Orchestia
gammarellus
), lugworm
(
Arenicola marina
), and
barnacle (
Semibalanus
balanoides
)
20-2000
Dissection and
wormcast
examination
Thompson et
al. (2004)
Mussels (
Mytilus edulis
) 2-16
Dissection and
fluorescence
microscopy
Browne et al.
(2008)
Sea cucumbers
Various
Excrement
analysis
Graham and
Thompson
(2009)
Mysid shrimps,
copepods, cladocerans,
rotifers, polychaete
larvae and ciliates
10
Dissection and
fluorescence
microscopy
Setälä et al.
(2014)
Ingestion of POPs-laden microplastics by zooplankton- and
phytoplankton-feeding fish is a concern because the high loading of POPs
in them may transfer to body tissue and potentially move up the trophic
levels (Farrell and Nelson, 2013), possibly eventually reaching the human
